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Children
In my work with children, I help them to:
- Express themselves appropriately and
develop more self-control
- Develop a more positive self-image
- Be more responsible for their behavior and respect
and live with limits
- Know and trust themselves better
- Learn how to make decisions
- Be more aware of how they relate to
family members, peers and friends
Teenagers
When I work with teenagers, I help them sort out:
- What kind of friends they need and what kind they
don't
- How drugs and alcohol affect them
- How healthy sex is part of life and what choices
they can make
- What kind of future they want for themselves
- What kind of person they want to be and what they
stand for
- How to express themselves while considering the
opinions of others
- How to express strong emotions and
unresolved feelings
Adults
In my work with adults, I encounter a broad range of
issues, including.
- Depression,
anxiety, stress, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy
- Building and keeping a satisfying
relationship
- Substance
abuse and other self-destructive behavior
- Grief,
loss, and traumatic memories
- Recovery
from childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
- Chronic
illness or injury
- Aging, taking care of aging parents
- Finding or keeping a job, career goals
- Finding fulfillment in life
- Searching
for a spiritual self
Couples
In working with couples, I stress that maintaining a successful
relationship is ongoing and challenging work. After the "honeymoon”
period is over, couples see each other in a much more full, authentic
way.
I invite couples to explore and experiment with their experience through
mindfulness. Using mindfulness as a method of self observation, emotions
and memories are evoked very quickly, in a completely nonviolent way. As
Ron Kurtz says: “Using the combination of experiments and mindfulness,
clients can discover a tremendous amount of who they are and how they are
unconsciously effecting their relationships.” Each partner comes to
understand what their part is in the dysfunctional “system” and where it
originated. As a therapist, I help
them find more appropriate, nonviolent ways of communicating or behaving to
replace the old, ineffective habits.
All problems, including communication challenges, lack of
support in a job, intimacy and sexual difficulties, different parenting
styles and more can be more easily understood and assessed in this way.
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