I have unique practice that couples my training in marriage and family issues and cognitive behavior therapy with high technology. I use biofeedback and neurofeedback (QEEG-targeted), integrated with the other styles. I’m a Board Certified Art Therapist with a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara prior to my M.A. from the Adler Graduate School in Minneapolis, and licensure as an L.M.F.T.

I use multiple art forms, from painting to clay with patients. I bet not many clinics have a kiln. We do! The art gives expression to the non-verbal side of us and that is also the side that stores trauma. So art is an important part of giving voice and image to the history.

I practice with a long term colleague Brenda Hightshoe, and my life partner John, a PhD psychologist. I’m a pretty secular Jew, although we were married by a Sephardic Rabbi and one of our sons made it through a bar mitzvah. John, Brenda and I sometimes share patients, particularly when someone prefers working with a woman or a man as a therapist, or when someone has problems better addressed by one of us, e.g., John works more with chronic pain than I do. I did my Masters’ thesis on autism and I enjoy working with the spectrum of these people, child through adult. I work very well with people who are anxious, helping out with heart rate variability biofeedback to teach the habit of slow easy breathing and CBT to get people saying helpful things to themselves. For the deeper anxieties born of trauma I commonly use neurofeedback in tandem with the other skill sets.

I also love helping people in transitions of any kind.