For Parents Whether you're cooperatively planning for your children’s needs after separating, you don’t speak to one another at all or are contemplating a court-ordered custody evaluation and fearful of someone else defining when you can be with your children, I understand the [...]
Brief therapy with adults, teens, couples and families Our work together is a collaboration, helping you bolster your internal resources and gain clarity about why you've made the choices you have. With the goal of bringing more of your genuine self into your relationships, that may include [...]
Serious allegations make parents vulnerable to losing their child-focus, becoming more entrenched and possibly escalating their level of conflict. Understanding more about the evaluation process itself and what it can, and can’t, accomplish, from an experienced evaluator, can be helpful. [...]
Family therapy, marital counseling and parent guidance is meaningful and challenging work. When parents live in different households, however, parent counseling takes on new dimension that requires treatment goals be formulated differently. If you incorporate this thinking from the outset, [...]
Whether you are cooperatively planning for your children’s needs after separation, or you don’t speak to one another or are contemplating a court-ordered custody evaluation and fearful of losing access to your children, I understand the competing demands of addressing your own needs as [...]
In my family growing up, my parents were devoted to their kids but not very good at resolving their own conflicts. My older sister took the brunt of that emotional fall out, protecting me but at great personal cost to her. She and I carried those experiences forward and they became part of the bond [...]
Please note - Contacting me through the web alone does not by itself create a professional relationship, so information provided here is not privileged or confidential.Telehealth appointments available Licensed in California, Hawaii and Oregon: California: PSY10728 Hawaii: PSY 208 [...]
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