Get to Know Me
It's important to me that whether I am working with an individual, a family, a business, a team, or an audience that I am connecting with you on a real and down-to-earth level. I am not afraid to share my mistakes, struggles, or life lessons and I aim to utilize my life experiences and stories in engaging ways to normalize hardship and to illustrate growth.
I believe that we all have within us the capacity to heal, grow and change. Sometimes it just takes a catalyst (maybe a life event, another perspective, an interaction with someone, or any scenario) to trigger our innate longings to evolve and adapt towards our highest integrity.
I am passionate about helping others find their purpose, their soul's integrity and to feel more fulfilled in their life. This certainly takes work to uncover all the areas that you have been blocked, or maybe even inhibited yourself from moving forward. I am committed to doing this work in my life, alongside you...to sharing my stories of failures and success, of trauma and recovery, of loss and growth.
It is truly through some of our greatest adversities that we can discover great strength within ourselves to overcome and walk toward the things that matter, while letting go of the things that don't.
Part of the gift from my struggles in overcoming childhood trauma has been to develop a deep understanding of human behavior, of what works (and what doesn't), to deepen my ability to be present and attentive to myself and others, and to ultimately understand the differences between what enables systems (individuals, relationships, communities, and businesses) to be well as opposed to breeding dysfunction.
All of these experiences have been gathered from personal insights from rising above my family's background of dysfunction as well as my professional expertise and education as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and having a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh.
I have maintained a business as a psychotherapist for 10 years utilizing innovative approaches to treat complex issues related to trauma, addictions, eating disorders and grief and loss. My style focuses on attending to and treating the whole person: mind, body, emotions and spirit.
Providing a variety of talks, workshops, groups and classes to various audiences over the past 10 years - I have inspired personal growth, empowerment, healing, and professional development.
In addition to being a speaker, I have experience as an Account Manager in an Employee Assistance Program where I provided management consultation about workplace issues, critical incident debriefings, and provided services for employee wellness.
How might my personal experiences as well as my expertise in treating individual clients as a psychotherapist apply to doing work with businesses and restructuring company culture?
Well, to put it simply, they aren't much different.
Yes, how businesses and employees operate outwardly may be different, but the internal mechanisms and drivers for individual behaviors in businesses are all the same. Your employees are driven by their thoughts, feelings, and urges (all internal processes). For instance, if we allow ourselves to be driven by fear in a personal relationship, we may withhold information that could be vital to the development and strength of that relationship. If an employee is driven by fear of his boss' rejection of their proposal and withholds this information, the business could suffer from the innovation, creativity and potential benefit of the idea.
It is all about what energy (via our thoughts, feelings or urges) we allow to be drivers in our actions as individuals, employees, and businesses. A business entity itself could have unintentionally been founded on control, fear, greed, power...which inherently will perpetuate and construct those drivers in workplace culture, productivity, and service delivery if not deconstructed and addressed. Energies like fear, anger, greed, control, pride will only lead to destructive results on a small or larger scale, albeit they still are powerful forces. Managers driven by pride, fear and control to lead their subordinates will not produce constructive results. We know this. What we struggle with is how to deconstruct this negativity and get to the root issues that are manifesting it, resolve those issues, and invite and implement constructive energies and behaviors.
Energies like courage, compassion, neutrality, reasoning will lead to constructive results. There are ways we can learn to embody and act on these forces to support a functional workplace system. These concepts are supported by a variety of sources, one of which is in David Hawkin's research in the book, "Power vs Force".
In my work with individuals, families and businesses, I am focused on identifying and addressing the root issues to problems, not just treating "symptoms". There are many approaches and modalities that just treat symptoms and surface level issues. That is not my style.
What can you expect in working with me?
I believe that we all have within us the capacity to heal, grow and change. Sometimes it just takes a catalyst (maybe a life event, another perspective, an interaction with someone, or any scenario) to trigger our innate longings to evolve and adapt towards our highest integrity.
I am passionate about helping others find their purpose, their soul's integrity and to feel more fulfilled in their life. This certainly takes work to uncover all the areas that you have been blocked, or maybe even inhibited yourself from moving forward. I am committed to doing this work in my life, alongside you...to sharing my stories of failures and success, of trauma and recovery, of loss and growth.
It is truly through some of our greatest adversities that we can discover great strength within ourselves to overcome and walk toward the things that matter, while letting go of the things that don't.
Part of the gift from my struggles in overcoming childhood trauma has been to develop a deep understanding of human behavior, of what works (and what doesn't), to deepen my ability to be present and attentive to myself and others, and to ultimately understand the differences between what enables systems (individuals, relationships, communities, and businesses) to be well as opposed to breeding dysfunction.
All of these experiences have been gathered from personal insights from rising above my family's background of dysfunction as well as my professional expertise and education as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and having a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh.
I have maintained a business as a psychotherapist for 10 years utilizing innovative approaches to treat complex issues related to trauma, addictions, eating disorders and grief and loss. My style focuses on attending to and treating the whole person: mind, body, emotions and spirit.
Providing a variety of talks, workshops, groups and classes to various audiences over the past 10 years - I have inspired personal growth, empowerment, healing, and professional development.
In addition to being a speaker, I have experience as an Account Manager in an Employee Assistance Program where I provided management consultation about workplace issues, critical incident debriefings, and provided services for employee wellness.
How might my personal experiences as well as my expertise in treating individual clients as a psychotherapist apply to doing work with businesses and restructuring company culture?
Well, to put it simply, they aren't much different.
Yes, how businesses and employees operate outwardly may be different, but the internal mechanisms and drivers for individual behaviors in businesses are all the same. Your employees are driven by their thoughts, feelings, and urges (all internal processes). For instance, if we allow ourselves to be driven by fear in a personal relationship, we may withhold information that could be vital to the development and strength of that relationship. If an employee is driven by fear of his boss' rejection of their proposal and withholds this information, the business could suffer from the innovation, creativity and potential benefit of the idea.
It is all about what energy (via our thoughts, feelings or urges) we allow to be drivers in our actions as individuals, employees, and businesses. A business entity itself could have unintentionally been founded on control, fear, greed, power...which inherently will perpetuate and construct those drivers in workplace culture, productivity, and service delivery if not deconstructed and addressed. Energies like fear, anger, greed, control, pride will only lead to destructive results on a small or larger scale, albeit they still are powerful forces. Managers driven by pride, fear and control to lead their subordinates will not produce constructive results. We know this. What we struggle with is how to deconstruct this negativity and get to the root issues that are manifesting it, resolve those issues, and invite and implement constructive energies and behaviors.
Energies like courage, compassion, neutrality, reasoning will lead to constructive results. There are ways we can learn to embody and act on these forces to support a functional workplace system. These concepts are supported by a variety of sources, one of which is in David Hawkin's research in the book, "Power vs Force".
In my work with individuals, families and businesses, I am focused on identifying and addressing the root issues to problems, not just treating "symptoms". There are many approaches and modalities that just treat symptoms and surface level issues. That is not my style.
What can you expect in working with me?
- I empower you with information and skills, offering you opportunities to embody these resources through direct experience.
- I hold you accountable to do the work.
- I provide clear direction, compassion and support to help you feel a sense of wholeness, balance, and productivity.
- I assist you in connecting with the resources that are already accessible to you, but may have been hidden, repressed, or unnoticed.
- I look at all aspects of the problem and dig to find the roots that are causing dysfunction and distress. We take nothing at surface value and keep expanding our view to use a wider perspective and discover more creative & comprehensive solutions.
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