In my work, I am guided by the belief that when we are not living according to our inner wisdom, suffering can result. I don't believe that I know what is right for you. I believe something in you knows what is right for you. I can help you listen for that inner knowing. I like to work with dreams in therapy, as I feel they can provide an important additional perspective on our lives.

I have been very influenced by the ideas of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Jung was for awhile a colleague of Freud, but differed with him over the nature of psychic energy. While Freud believed that all impulses could ultimately be traced to the sexual drive, Jung felt that psychic energy was more general in nature, and that sex was just one aspect of human experience. Jung felt that there were also drives toward self-fulfillment, and artistic and spiritual expression.

To me, practicing with a Jungian orientation means seeing symptoms and suffering as the result of a person's striving towards greater wholeness. I agree with Jung’s idea that there is in each one of us an organizing center to our personality that guides us to become our truest, most authentic selves, and seems at times to “know” more than our conscious personality. Sometimes, the path it chooses for us is painful, and it feels as if we have lost our way. Only later do we see that in fact, we were lead the way we needed to go. Often, the wisdom of this center of ourselves can be heard if we listen carefully to our dreams. When clients are willing, I enjoy working with dreams, since they can provide a different perspective on our lives other than that available to our conscious selves.

I am currently studying to become a Jungian analyst at the Philadelphia Jung Institute.

"People travel to wonder at the height
of the mountains, at the huge waves of
the seas, at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean, at the
circular motion of the stars, and yet they
pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine