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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 people
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 help people connect to and collaborate with their own inner wisdom, and I teach concrete, effective
tools and skills.
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. I'm LGBTQ-friendly.I work with adult children of alcoholics and other troubled families, survivors
of trauma and/or 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, compulsive exercise,
body image issues and related problems. I counsel bariatric surgery patients, pre-and-post-op.
I'm certified as an Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals
(IAEDP), and I'm an IAEDP approved supervisor. I am the Eating and Food Issues Topic Expert for GoodTherapy.org (you can
read my monthly articles by clicking the Topic Expert button, below) .
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, adolescence or young adulthood, I utilize the Development Needs
Meeting Strategy and Internal Family Systems (IFS). I've completed the year-long Level 1 IFS training and will begin level
2 in April, 2012. Both are gentle yet powerful means of healing childhood wounds, as well as effective for treating many present-day
problems that bring people to therapy. For more information, visit the DNMS and IFS websites, by clicking on the links below.
I also employ Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which offers practical skills for healthy coping as alternatives to self-damaging
behaviors.
As a certified 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 support personal
growth and healing. For more information, visit the PRYT website (see link below).
I've received training
in trauma-sensitive yoga teaching through the Trauma Center at JRI in Boston, MA and offer yoga classes for survivors of all
types of traumatic experiences. Please visit my "Trauma-Sensitive Yoga" page for further information. 
The DNMS home page
The IFS home page
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
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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