Making a commitment to yourself is the same as taking the steering wheel of your life, authoring who you are and where you're going, dreaming your life into reality.

If your life is stalled, out of gas, uninspired, flat, flopped, or fogged ... If you're suffering from:

• anxiety, panic, trauma
• depression
• relationship issues and conflicts
• low self esteem or self misunderstanding or self nonunderstanding
• difficult life changes and transitions such as marriage, divorce, death, terminated employment, menopause, mid life crisis, parenting challenges

And you're willing to change yourself, Psychotherapy can help!

Doing therapy you'll:

• Learn the self defeating loopback processes for anxiety and depression, and how to recognize when they're ready to start (or have already started)
• Practice techniques for stopping anxiety and panic instantly
• Discover how to disempower the triggers of depression
• Develop skills for climbing out of the pit of depression if you get stuck down there
• Change how you interact with others to build healthy relationships
• Banish old patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that no longer serve you
• Explore who you really are and what you want to do with your life
• Bust out of mistaken beliefs, family myths, religious or cultural strictures and limitations
• Turn your life around and face forward towards your chosen vision of the future

Hey, you can be low and miserable, despondent and despairing, perhaps even suicidal. Maybe you've worked with a dozen therapists to no avail; but here's what I say to you: what if the next therapist had just the right key into your dreams of a beautiful future, wouldn't you go for it?

Hey, you could be a highly effective, happy, engaged, fulfilled and actualized person; but blocked for mysterious reasons from achieving your full potential that you sense is just beyond your current reach; here's what I say to you: a helpful therapist will be outside your limiting, invisible (to you) beliefs, and as such able to challenge and confront you about them. If you remove them, your life will be back in synch!

Like what you're reading? Want to make a change in your life?
Make an appointment.

None of us get out of childhood without making decisions about ourselves, others, and our future. These decisions are The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

This website and my career are focused on helping people find and change those bad and ugly decisions.

To get started redeciding those bad and ugly decisions, sign up for my 5 part mini course, Show Me the Strokes and I'll Swim Through Life

With 5 short emails coming once a week you'll:

• Learn how to build instant rapport with people, even young children
• Discover when to keep your mouth shut and not say anything as a means of improving relationships or simple interactions
• Know what to say when you're given a compliment you don't want
• Understand where to start when repairing a relationship
• Feel calm going into almost any social situation

Isn't psychotherapy for psychos?
Read my answer.


For You Do-It-Yourself Types
Read my opinion.


Don't like how you feel emotionally? What the heck are feelings anyways!? Understanding Feelings: The Definitive Power Guide


Eduletters - once a month, approximately, I email a short informative and entertaining (I hope) mental health or interpersonal skills update to my 'private list'. Here's two samples:
Mind Reading
Mind Reading Part Duh
 

The difference between a comedy and a tragedy is that in a comedy the characters figure out reality in time to do something about it.
- Bennett W. Goodspeed


We live in a culture that encourages us not to take our own suffering seriously, but rather to make light of it or even to laugh about it. What is more, this attitude is regarded as a virtue, and many people are proud of their lack of sensitivity toward their own fate and particularly toward their fate as a child.
- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller


Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials, capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being.
Born to Win - Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward


Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley


Drop the words "if only" and substitute "next time".
- Smiley Blanton


Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
- William James


My philosophy is that only you are responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey


There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein


It is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from unexpected places. Doing this makes available to you inner and outer energies and allies that arise out of your own soulfulness and selflessness
- Where Ever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn