Sandplay Therapy with children, adolescents and adults.

Contact me by phone: 831.458.3438
Life can sometimes be discouraging and trying for all of us. We keep on trying anyway. Counseling helps us to overcome our difficulties. Courageous expression of our feelings will lead us to our personal solutions to life’s challenges.

My counseling style is accepting, direct, and interactive. I firmly believe we all write our own book and we have our own answers. Our emotions guide us to those answers. The therapeutic relationship creates a safe place to realize ourselves.

Adolescents and Adults of all ages are a large population in my counseling practice. My counseling focus with adults and adolescents is to establish a strong therapeutic relationship. A relationship that is supportive to the individual’s ability to assess their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sandplay and dream work are useful modalities to discover unconscious information. Adults and adolescents working in partnership with me usually acquire greater emotional understanding and increased self-confidence.

Children are also a population in my practice. Before my counseling practice, I taught handicapped children for many years. My sincere enjoyment of children and their families continues as a counselor. Sandplay is a great tool to engage children in the counseling process. Parents are partners. Parents gain insight and greater understanding of their child. The relationship between child and parent is strengthened. Family life usually improves.

The positive realizations experienced in counseling can be lifelong. The acceptance of ourselves, of our human emotions, makes us the interesting individuals that we are. Increased happiness of each individual contributes to a better world.

Education & Details

• Received Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Santa Clara University, 1978
• California Licensed since 1978
• MFT License Number 12494
• Based in Santa Cruz, California