Located in Southeast Portland & Clackamas, Oregon

While I will continue to offer therapy for individuals, children, families, and couples, my practice has been evolving to include more groups, workshops, and retreats. I have led countless groups for women and men over the years and will continue to do so. I will also be offering more designed especially for women. I have a profound respect for the power of women gathering together in community and I'm touched and inspired by the deep level of connection, discovery, and healing that occurs when they come together and share their hopes, dreams, and vulnerabilities.

Upcoming groups for men and women include: Managing & Overcoming Anxiety and Managing and Overcoming Depression. Using clinically effective (research based) methods, participants will be able to break free of the oppressive grip anxiety and depression has on one's life and relationships.

Coming up for women: Women’s Therapy Group for those who are struggling and wish to have professional and peer support; Women’s Focus Group is about identifying a particular goal or aspiration, working towards it with the support of others; Women’s Day Retreat for women wanting a full day to tend to mind, body, and spirit by relaxing, playing and richly connecting with their inner spirits and other women. This retreat will be held at Sacred Streams Center, a lovely setting located about 35 minutes from Portland. Also at Sacred Streams is another full day retreat in May, in honor of Mother's Day, Mothers and Daughters , which will bring moms and their adolescent daughters together for a fun and meaningful day together. Look for this workshop in early May. I will team up with my own daughter as co-facilitator for a day to remember!

I often wish there were more ways to support and empower young women as they work through the tasks and challenges of adolescence. A new group, Connections, an Empowerment Group for Girls, will provide girls (ages 12-14) support with personal issues, as well as help them to become more solid in their own selves. The girls will each identify goals for the 8 weeks and through group discussion and expressive arts projects they will grow, heal, and blossom.

With each passing year I am more aware of the relationship between creativity, art, and well-being. I continue to be passionate about SoulCollage®, a process that isn't therapy but richly therapeutic. SoulCollage has a bit of everthing... it's fun and engaging, unleashes creative energy, and is deeply personal and meaningful. SoulCollage is a wonderful process for those who want to stretch, grow, and connect with others. In Art Women, a Play Group for Grown-Ups participants will enhance creativity and use art for the purpose of discovery, self-expression, making cool stuff, or just playing. I believe everyone is an artist but many of us as children cut off that aspect of ourselves. It is time to relearn the value of creative play--it revs up our spirits and life energies! You will be amazed with yourself in this group -- your creative pathways will open and you will be thrilled with your creations! Play possibilities include: painting, making handbound books, creating altered photo collage wall hangings, creativity exercises, mosaics, figurative sculpture and more!