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Your Trusted Partner for Mental Health Therapy in Marin County
Our practice specializes in guiding individuals and couples through transformative journeys of change, loss, and healing. With over four decades of experience in psychotherapy, we employ a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approach to explore the unconscious processes shaping thoughts, emotions, and relationships. We integrate mindfulness techniques developed through extensive meditation training to foster present-moment awareness, helping clients navigate life's challenges with clarity and resilience.Our work addresses depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, grief, and existential concerns, while also supporting those seeking personal growth and creative expansion. Rooted in a deep understanding of human interconnectedness, we create a compassionate space for clients to confront life's impermanence and discover pathways to wholeness.
Services
Individual Psychotherapy
Couples Counseling
Mindfulness Integration
Grief Counseling
Psychodynamic Therapy
Highlights and features
- We combine psychodynamic therapy with mindfulness techniques developed through 40+ years of meditation practice
- Our approach addresses both clinical mental health concerns and existential/personal growth needs
- Specialized experience working with grief, loss, and life transitions
- We integrate neuroscience insights with traditional psychotherapeutic methods
- Compassionate support for navigating relationship conflicts and communication challenges
Services
Individual Psychotherapy
This service provides personalized mental health treatment through psychodynamic exploration of unconscious patterns. Using mindfulness techniques developed through decades of meditation practice, we address depression, anxiety, and life transitions. The therapeutic process helps clients understand how early relationships shape current behaviors while cultivating emotional resilience through present-moment awareness.
Couples Counseling
Specialized therapy for intimate partners focuses on improving communication and understanding relationship dynamics. Using a psychodynamic framework, we explore how each partner's internal world shapes interactions. The process emphasizes developing mutual respect and humility while navigating conflicts that reveal deeper emotional truths about both individuals and their connection.
Mindfulness Integration
Drawing from extensive meditation experience, this service teaches present-moment awareness techniques to enhance emotional regulation. We incorporate mindfulness practices into traditional psychotherapy to help clients develop greater self-awareness and reduce reactivity to stressors, creating space for intentional responses rather than automatic reactions.
Grief Counseling
Specialized support helps clients navigate the complex emotions associated with loss. Through psychodynamic exploration, we examine how grief manifests in thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. The therapeutic process acknowledges loss as a universal human experience while addressing its unique impact on each individual's sense of self and worldview.
Psychodynamic Therapy
This approach explores unconscious processes shaping thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through psychodynamic analysis. We examine how early life experiences and relationships influence current challenges, creating awareness of hidden patterns. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a tool for understanding and transforming deep-seated emotional patterns.
Questions
What types of therapy do you offer?
I provide individual psychotherapy and couples counseling using psychodynamic and mindfulness-based approaches to address emotional challenges and personal growth.
How does your psychotherapy approach work?
My method explores unconscious patterns through psychodynamic analysis while integrating mindfulness practices to enhance present-moment awareness and emotional regulation.
Do you accept insurance?
I am a Medicare provider and can submit bills to out-of-network insurance companies upon request.
What mental health issues do you specialize in?
I specialize in treating depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, grief, life transitions, and existential concerns through evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
How do you incorporate mindfulness into therapy?
Drawing from 40+ years of meditation training, I teach mindful awareness techniques to help clients develop emotional resilience and present-moment focus.
What makes your approach different?
My unique combination of psychoanalytic training, mindfulness expertise, and experience with end-of-life care creates a holistic framework for personal transformation.
