Degrees: Master of Science in Social Work, Columbia University; Doctorate of Education, specializing in Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto
First Year Practice:
1993
Languages Served:
English
Clinical Specialties:
Abuse/Violence/Anger Management
Counselling/Therapy
Grief/Trauma/Loss
Mental Health/Addictions
NonClinical Specialties:
Career/Employment Counselling
Consulting/Group Facilitation
Conducting Workshops/Seminars
Age Groups Served:
Adolescents
Adults
Specialized Training:
I analyze a set of your childhood memories/dreams you bring in - to figure you out FAST: personality style, inner dynamics, root issues, growth edge, hidden talents. I provide extensive feedback, then EMDR, NLP to architect change. I’m doing a 360 look at you, considering intra-psychic function. nutrition, lifestyle, cognitive style, other angles. I specialize in problems that have been unresponsive to conventional psychotherapy: OCD, Anorexia, etc. I use Jungian & Eastern wisdom, Ken Wilber, Ericksonian approaches, Internal Family Systems to engineer change on an unconscious level. I tend to be selective who I work with.
Your childhood memories/dreams you awaken with reveal personality, strengths, issues, provide the initial inroad to understanding you. Next we build resources/perform ego strengthening/restructure your personality. My work is technical - you could say like Pilates - and has been featured in dailies across Canada, trade magazines, conferences.
Personal Statement:
Here's an interesting rule of thumb. Any disruptive symptom may be a problem but is never "the" problem. Symptoms are actually the unconscious mind's attempt to solve another problem, hidden from view, but effectively managed by seemingly unproductive patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving. The key, then, is to identify the root problem and solve that. Tenacious symptoms may fade away when their raison d'etre is no more. Surprisingly, early memories and dreams often reveal the genius of individuality and the architecture of the symptoms: how they work, what they do, why they do what they do. With the root problem revealed, brief therapy methods target change by developing resources within the conscious and the unconscious mind. This reconfigures those mechanisms which had previously maintained the symptom. This approach has been used successfully with tenacious obsessive-compulsive conditions and other confounding mental health problems. I specialize in work with difficult conditions which have not been responsive to standard therapy.
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