“His non­judg­men­tal and accept­ing man­ner let me feel safe to explore inner ter­rain that I could not tra­verse alone. He was an invalu­able ally in my heal­ing, full of com­pas­sion and insights… often deliv­ered via an irrev­er­ent sense of humor.”

Psy­chother­a­py Client, Northampton

My edu­ca­tion and my expe­ri­ence have led me to great­ly respect the uncon­scious and its many man­i­fes­ta­tions. This trans­lates into lis­ten­ing to what is spo­ken, what is unspo­ken, and even to what may be unspeak­able — and also to what is expressed as images in dreams, day-dreams, and cre­ative expres­sions. In addi­tion, when appro­pri­ate, I inte­grate neu­ro­log­i­cal insights and trau­ma-heal­ing tech­niques from cur­rent somat­ic therapies.

I work both with clients whose con­di­tions used to be described as neu­roses (a poor abil­i­ty to adapt to or cope with one’s famil­ial, social, or work envi­ron­ments, an inabil­i­ty to change one’s estab­lished life pat­terns, and/or the gen­er­al inabil­i­ty to devel­op a rich­er and more sat­is­fy­ing life), as well as with those suf­fer­ing from more deeply root­ed psy­cho­log­i­cal con­di­tions (com­plex PTSD, the per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­ders), and with some whose con­di­tions, like bipo­lar dis­or­der, involve par­tic­u­lar­ly entwined psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­o­log­i­cal factors.

I am also avail­able for explo­rations of the psy­che that could per­haps be called elec­tive; for work that is dri­ven less by a desire to reduce per­son­al suf­fer­ing and more by a desire to max­i­mize joy and cre­ativ­i­ty, and to probe the mys­ter­ies of life.