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Carmel Valley Psychotherapy |
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Life has many challenges, and seeing an experienced psychotherapist is immeasurably helpful to facilitate your own strength and overall health as you navigate them. I am dedicated to providing you with cutting edge, research backed therapy that is designed especially for your appropriate concerns. Most of us did not grow up in homes where we learned how to set healthy boundaries or how to love and be loved in a satisfying, comfortable way. Family of origin issues can color your present life, determining if you live a life of vitality and real connection, or one of quiet desperation. This is particularly important if as a child you suffered from trauma or loss, which can seem minor from an adult perspective, but can have a profound influence on how you experience yourself and your life. It is possible to effectively shift the way you think and experience yourself in the world around you. Each of us has variables that make us operate at a "default setting". Your "default setting" may keep you functioning lower than your ideal. No matter how your current pattern of vulnerabilities are negatively impacting you today, you can be confidant that you do not have to be stuck at your unhappy or unsatisfying default setting. The same recurring problems don't have to continue to take up your time and bog you down. It really is possible to feel vitally connected to the life you want in a meaningful way; life was meant to be lived with energy and a sense of connection to ourselves, our work and those around us. Anything less is not real health. Many advancements have been made in the field of mental health that allows therapy to be much more effective than in the past. Depending on your area of concern, therapy may require as few as six sessions or six months. In more deeply rooted problems that have become chronic, people often work for years. Treatment does not necessarily involve a long term, costly commitment. You deserve to have the best life you can! I have been a provider for Mental Health, and Life Management issues for the past thirty years. I assisted in developing one of the first hospital based Health Promotion Programs at Rush Presbyterian Hospital. I developed and led classes in Nutrition, Time Management, Meditation, Human Potential, Mindfulness Stress Reduction, and Exercise at Rush Presbyterian Hospital, a cutting edge Research Hospital at that time. I have led psychotherapy groups for Eating, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, and Relationships, as well as doing Brain Rewiring and Family Therapy. After graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, I became the Clinical Director of Employee Assistance Services, or EAP, at Wells Fargo Bank, overseeing 23,000 employees and their dependents. I have worked successfully with the difficult work situations and professional concerns inherent in Corporate America, including the human side of mergers and acquisitions, proactively dealing with the inherent losses and changes that inevitably occur. In these roles I have strived to decrease the stigma of mental health issues and increase the awareness and appropriate treatment of Mood and Anxiety disorders, including OCD and ADHD in the workplace. My work and interventions are based on the latest findings in neuroscience, to support optimal health and happiness. I started my private practice in San Francisco in 1992, and have presented on such topics as Relaxation Training, Guided Imagery, Meditation and Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, Coping with Holiday Stress, Assertiveness and Eating Disorders to Hewlett Packard, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, Summertime Media, Alpine Pictures, teaching hospitals and many other companies. I relocated to San Diego in 2001 and have continued successfully treating Mood and Anxiety Spectrum Disorders, Parenting and Family issues, and interpersonal growth both with couples and individuals.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Recent research shows that once income climbs above poverty level, more money brings very little extra happiness; happiness is highly correlated with close friendships with people who care about you. "People only see what they are prepared to see". |
