Your Inner Self will guide you in a mind-body experience using personally-tailored leading-edge methods
With my advanced education in several proven, leading-edge mind-body approaches,
I am able to customize treatment to meet the specific needs of each individual. My role is active, facilitative and solution-oriented, not passive, controlling or directive.
My approach ventures beyond conventional psychotherapy in many ways. For one, it is less talk oriented, and more geared toward the right hemisphere of the brain, the seat of past experiences that dictate our present-day perceptions, feelings and behaviors. My approach is also more holistic in that it works not with symptoms but with the roots of old learning. I am able to assist you without having you do homework that requires a lifetime of self-management; instead, you change from the inside out.
The Developmental Needs-Meeting Strategy
(DNMS) is one variation that has developed out of EMDR. The DNMS integrates proven methods in an innovative manner and adds additional unique elements that make this approach far more effective than the vast majority of psychotherapeutic techniques. It is revolutionary to the field of psychotherapy. At this time, I am the only psychotherapist within the city of Los Angeles that offers this superbly effective therapy.
While EMDR desensitizes past wounds and traumas, the DNMS is more comprehensive. It fills in the gaps in childhood development to establish a strong inner core and foundation.
The process of true growth and healing does not require us to dwell in painful memories, just refer to them for key pieces of information. The Developmental Needs-Meeting Strategy method uses that information to construct new corrective healing experiences. In the process, your coping abilities strengthen, difficult emotions become easier to handle, and you enter into a more naturally capable, healthy, empowered state of being.
The DNMS also works at a deeper level of the mind than any other approach. The effect is to erase negative conditioning to a point as if it never occurred, and allow full integration of conflicting parts of self into one's higher essence. Unlike other therapies, the DNMS releases negative beliefs and reactions to the point that they can never reappear, even in another form. The DNMS offers the opportunity for you to transform into the most mature, capable, satisfied and peaceful person you have the potential to be, able to meet life's challenges with strength, stability and inner peace. To watch a 25-minute introductory slide presentation about the DNMS, click here.
Additional methods I may employ include Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), psychoeducation, supportive, cognitive-behavioral ( CBT) therapy and communication skills training.