Learn how to reduce the emotional content of an unpleasant experience

Identify the core unpleasant experience

Learn self-compassion

With a gentle step-by-step process, eliminate the emotional content from the unpleasant experience

Integrate the new experience

Please invest time before each session to identify what you would like to take away from the session.

Please be sure all necessary electronics are charged and functional

Please arrive to every session on time.

Come to your session centered and ready to engage. (I can teach you how to do that).

Be open-minded. There are so many advantages to being teachable.

Give me feedback in the moment about your counseling experience – what is working and what is not.

Please budget for this investment.

Provide a private environment- one in which you will be safe and undisturbed

I will provide you with an emotionally safe, non-judgmental and respectful setting in which you can feel comfortable just being yourself.

I will arrive on time with all necessary electronics charged and functional

I will listen closely to you, respond to what I hear and ask questions. If I hear something in your voice or language or a gesture that sparks an intuitive thought, I am likely to ask you about it. Oftentimes, it is the small moments that bring about BIG shifts. If I am not on target, just tell me.

I am not attached to being “right.”

At the end of the dialogue, I will likely make a counseling request. I will ask you to stretch, to deepen the work done in the session by taking some action– writing, resolving a relationship or something that feels incomplete. You are free to negotiate, decline or accept the request.

To work myself out of a job.