As of January 1, 2024 my practice is limited, as I am shifting to giving online seminars and writing. Please contact me for current availability.
I am a licensed psychologist in private practice for 30+ years, and am interested in working with people who feel compelled to study their life, personality patterns and relationships with an eye toward what is working well and what isn’t.
My background is international, from both East and West. I have immersed myself in diverse lineages and learned from many. I do not identify with any one heritage over another, and see myself as a “world citizen.” I was born and raised in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s and have made Portland, Oregon my home since 1970. Having traveled to over 40 countries in the world, I appreciate diversity of all kinds, including unique human combinations, preferences, identities, sexual orientations, cultural and spiritual affiliations. I offer a partnership model for working together in therapy rather than a control or authority model.
I offer a depth psychological approach, informed by many strands of contemporary relational psychology and psychoanalysis. I value and respect unconscious processes and dynamics, and have a breadth of interests: from Carl Jung and secular spirituality, to contributions from many religious traditions, both east and west.
Therapy is about many things, but perhaps especially our emotional suffering and the possibility of transforming it. I’m a willing partner, aiming for an appreciative and fuller understanding of each unique human being through collaborative and goodwill efforts.
I do not use novel or specific “techniques.” I find there is no substitute for regular direct contact and relational work. I’m most interested in fully meeting and understanding what brings you, including what is and is not working well in your life. Having sincere in-depth conversations about one’s life and difficulties can provide insights that are both experiential and embodied, reasoned and down-to-earth — touching head, heart, soul and gut. Our unconscious ground of support, when open and accessible, can often assist in helping us grow stronger… especially when met with care, kindness and respect.
