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I have been providing services from this private office since February of 1995. I have been providing counseling, consulting, psychotherapy, and psychological testing services since 1983. I have a broad range of experience. I have worked at mental health centers, and veterans hospitals. I work with adults (including seniors) and adolescents.

I have a great deal of experience with anxiety issues (e.g., panic, phobias including agoraphobia and social phobia, obsessive compulsive problems, posttraumatic stress disorder, etc.), addiction, depression, couples and family counseling, anger and stress management, relationship issues and patterns, and phase of life issues (e.g., occupational or career change, children no longer at home, trying to find new purpose, etc.).

I believe in using approaches that work, and that have some basis in research, and that in my experience have been useful to my clients. My best and most profound teachers over the years have and continue to be my clients. I feel that it is very important that my clients are pursuing the goals in treatment that are important to them, and it is important to get results, as soon as possible. I believe it is important that the approaches used in therapy make sense to my clients and that my clients are in agreement with the approaches used and how therapy is proceeding.

I tend to favor cognitive-behavioral approaches, but I also recognize and work with developmental issues, including adult development or phase of life issues. I also think it is important to work with physiological issues which are related to mental and emotional functioning. I believe in being nonjudgmental and accepting. I believe in helping clients to develop and refine their abilities to use their thinking, emotions, and behavior to enhance the quality of their lives.

Over the years I have consistently gotten very good feedback from my clients with regard to the results they get in treatment, and that the focus has been on what is important to them, in a way that makes sense to them.

I am on most insurance provider panels and numerous employee assistance panels also.