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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
practitioner
Here's some basic info about my work as a psychotherapist
and yoga therapist. I work with individuals and couples, and families of all configurations. My intention is to assist my
clients in weathering the sometimes rough waters of life that we all encounter.
The body, the mind, the emotions, and the spirit are the
components that make up a human being; I recognize and honor the importance of including all of these parts for an experience
of healing and growth. I do so with the utmost respect for my clients' inner wisdom.
As a psychotherapist, I help
individuals, couples and families of all types address a variety of difficulties, including relationships (married, co-habitating,
committed or dating), anxiety, depression, life transitions and identity issues, parenting problems, infertility, and pet
loss. I'm LGBT-friendly.I work with adult children of alcoholics and other troubled families, adult survivors of childhood
trauma and abuse, and people active in 12-Step or other addiction recovery programs.
In addition, as an eating
disorders specialist, I diagnose and treat anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, obesity, and related problems.
I counsel bariatric surgery patients, pre-and-post-op.
I offer group therapy for women in which we address disordered
eating, weight and body image concerns. I have two open-ended groups:one for women with undereating/restricting/over-exercising/bingeing
and/or purging problems, the other for women struggling with overeating/binge eating/emotional eating and/or obesity. Group
membership is limited to 8, and members are required to be in individual therapy (with me or another therapist).
I'm certified as an eating disorders specialist by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals
(IAEDP), and I'm an IAEDP approved supervisor. In the early 1990's I was a therapist at the Beverly Hills Medical Center's
Step One eating disorders program, and then at the Rader Institute eating disorders unit at the AMI Medical Center, both in
Los Angeles. From September 1996, until July, 2006, I was a staff psychotherapist at Structure House, a residential treatment
center for obesity and overeating in Durham, NC.
I believe in the wisdom of the body, and incorporate somatic, or
body-oriented techniques, in my way of practicing psychotherapy. For work involving current difficulties resulting from trauma,
abuse or neglect that occurred in childhood, I utilize the DNMS-- Development Needs Meeting Strategy-- a gentle yet powerful
means of healing childhood wounds. For more information, visit the DNMS website, by clicking on the link below.
As a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner, I offer sessions designed to relieve stress, increase physical
flexibility, and provide a means for a client to connect with her or his inner wisdom, to allow personal transformation. For
more information, visit the PRYT website (see link below).
Private yoga instruction also available.
For classes
at I teach at Triangle Yoga, click below.
The DNMS homepage
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
Triangle Yoga
And you may be wondering-- why
"pizzadreams?" Well, my husband is a musician, and in his bachelor days, after a late night gig, he'd stop and pick up a frozen
pizza, take it home, heat it up, eat it, go to bed and have vivid, colorful dreams that he labled "pizza dreams." So we keep
the dreams alive by so naming our business endeavors.
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