I believe in empowering people to reach their full potential by providing services that are strengths-based, practical, holistic, and focused on promoting long lasting change. I work using a style of fostering trust and authenticity,starting where people want and ending when people feel their life and issues have changed and their happiness enhanced. I believe the relationship in counseling is the core issue in treatment. This is particularly important in working with children and adolescents where no work could be done without building a warm, honest, and caring connection. I believe healing comes through the mind, body, spirit connection. After more than 30 years I can say I am truly a broadly trained practitioner but I tend to enjoy using a humanistically and mindfulness based methodology with a strong relationship building style and developmental attachment style practice methods. I have a strong background, Internal Family Systems Certified, EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I am unusal in having many years of experience working with children and adolescents as well as adults, and having specialized training in addictions and youth counseling, including abuse and trauma issues. I have specialized in comprehensive family change work, meaning treating all the issues families and couples address.