INTRODUCTION

I provide psychotherapy services, often simply referred to as “therapy”, from my centrally located office in Omaha.  I work with adult clients of all ages, adolescents, and children and their families.  My training background is in Marriage and Family Therapy, which means I take a systemic approach to my work and my expertise is to work with clients from within their family system whenever possible.  

I explore clients and their presenting problems or symptoms within various contexts, including the individual's cultural and ethnic backgrounds.  I believe it is important to understand an individual or family's traditions, rituals, language, and firmly base my treatment approach on the needs of the client.

I also hold a positive outlook on humanity that allows me to be guided by the belief that all people have an innate potential to heal and grow in a positive direction if given the necessary support, guidance, and understanding.  I foster this environment through a healthy, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.

TREATMENT APPROACH

I take a biopsychosocial spiritual approach to my work, in other words I explore client’s problems and symptoms from several angles; the biological, the psychological, the social, and the spiritual.  I believe factors from all of these areas contribute to peoples’ experiences of life.  I help clients to better understand their own view of their world and explore with them the difficulties, disruptions, conflicts, and pains that they experience in that world. 

My goal is to assist my clients to identify their personal strengths and potential for positive change, to create new ways of seeing themselves, their relationships, and their world, and to help them develop coping skills that promote flexibility and an ability to live life to a greater potential.

COUPLES' THERAPY

A word about relationships. It is very rare that people function through life entirely alone; our natural human tendency is to exist in some form of social system, be it with family, friends, or partners, and yet human relationships can be the source of both our greatest support and our toughest challenges. I actively encourage clients to bring their relationships to therapy. 

Relational therapy gives individuals the opportunity to explore their significant relationships as well as themselves within those relationships, and when successful can enhance both the relationship and the individuals within it. Often when one person is identified as symptomatic, or having difficulties, working with that person and their partner or family significantly improves the outcome.  I very much enjoy working with couples, and probably spend the majority of my office time doing so.