Specialties:
Marriage & Family Therapy
Address:
735 Chestnut St SUITE C, Santa Cruz 95060
(831) 464-2922 (Phone), (831) 464-2922 (Fax)
Procedures:
Anxiety Disorders, Counseling, Counseling-Adolescent, Counseling-Marital, Couples Therapy, Depression, Marital Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy (Group), Sex Therapy
Conditions:
Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Psychotherapy
Philosophy:
My Basic Principles of Counseling
People are Inherently Good
With this premise I choose to identify each person as the part of him or her self that is trying to do their best, seek win-win solutions, and live gracefully in a sometimes difficult world. Despite any dysfunctional patterns we may have picked up along the way, it is this goodness inside that remains who we really are at our core. Any way in which we have hurt others, hurt ourselves, or shrunken from our potential can be understood as coming from some way in which we ourselves have been hurt, neglected, or suffered. As we heal ourselves we increase our ability to drop dysfunctional patterns and let our good intention manifest more clearly.
Each Person is the Ultimate Authority of Their Own Experience
Each person has an inner voice that speaks his or her truth. Others (therapists, for instance) may have hunches about what is true for you, but only you can decide is their theories fit your experience.