I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist. As a "Marriage Friendly" clinician I have more than twenty-eight years experience helping people with feelings of depression, anxiety, relationship issues and family problems.

My personal life experiences, integrated with my years of clinical experience, have deepened my effectiveness as a psychotherapist. In the context of a warm, supportive, safe environment, people learn to get in touch with, and appropriately express, their feelings and needs. This is enormously important for success in intimate, as well as work relationships.

In this fast paced life, people often loses touch with who they are and what they really want. Psychotherapy facilitates the discovery of one's inner needs, while learning to build more satisfying intimate, family and work relationships.

My approach to psychotherapy is humanistic, psycho-dynamic and relational. I view healing of the whole person as part of an individual’s natural development and growth. This therapeutic process provides an introspective, empathetic focus, aimed at understanding, removing emotional blocks and moving toward ongoing growth.

After assessing the individual's concerns, needs and goals, I make psychiatric referrals when necessary for prescriptive treatment and work closely with the psychiatrist, so that collaborative treatment planning and treatment options can be considered.

I believe the relationship between the client and therapist is where the most significant healing occurs. Psychotherapy becomes a creative process, incorporating mindful attentiveness to one's self as well as the self of the other. The healing of mind, body and spirit merges into a solid foundation of the integrated self.

1. Adjunctive Techniques
   

2. Hypnosis
   

3. EMDR
   

4. Sandtray
   

5. Psychodrama
   

6. Depression
   

7. Anxiety
   

8. Complex Mood Disorders (Bi Polar)
   

9. Eating Disorders

1. Trauma Related Disorders
   

2. Expressive Arts
   

3. Women's Health Issues
   

4. Marriage Friendly Couples Therapy
   

5. Relationships
   

6. Cancer Counseling
   

7. Grief and Bereavement
   

8. Substance Abuse
   

9. Depth Psychology 

Education

BA from Stephens College, Columbia, MO 1971
Psychology and Art

M.Ed. from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 1981
Counseling Psychology

License & Professional Affiliations

LPC, Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, #11187

LMFT, Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, #002856-002556

American Association of Counseling and Development

American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Cancer Counseling Inc.

Houston Group Psychotherapy

National Registry of Marriage Friendly Therapists