MODALITIES AND PROPRIETARY PROTOCOLS​

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MY ECLECTIC TOOLBOX

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Over thirty years of continuing education, training and workshops with interactive experience in the following areas of interest/expertise, blended and tailored to your specific needs:

• Supportive Humanistic Psychology (Carl Rogers, Unconditional Positive Regard)

• Psychodynamic processing of family of origin issues (Jung, Yalom)

• Positive Psychology

• Family Systems/Internal Family Systems Therapy

• Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavioral (DBT)

• Behavioral Activation

• Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

• Couples Therapy (Gottman, Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator, CSAT)

• Sex, Porn and Love Addiction (Harm reduction and Abstinence models)

• Infidelity and Betrayed Partner Recovery

• Motivational Interviewing/Stages of Change (Based on Prochaska and                          DiClemente)

• Divorce Discernment and Blended Families

• Parental Coaching (Gottman’s Emotional Coaching)

• Somatic, Mindfulness-Based Therapy (Based on the work of Peter Levine, Polyvagal Theory & Eastern Practices)

• Guided Meditations (featured on Insight Timer)

• Intuitive Eating/Binge-Emotional Eating Recovery (Based on the work of Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole, HAES)

• LGBTQ+ Support/Sexual and Gender Exploration

• Ketamine-Assisted and other Psychedelic treatments

• Exposure and Response Therapy (OCD, anxiety)

• Creative Art Therapy techniques (art, writing/poetry, music, dance, horticulture, archetypal tarot)

• Yoga Therapy

• Diagnosis and Assessment: (MINI, SCID-5-CV, YBOCS, C-SSRS)​​

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PROPRIETARY PROTOCOLS​

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• Guided Meditations for Anxiety, Depression & Anger Management
  Please check out my FREE guided meditations and informational talks featured on Insight Timer.

 

• Emotional Pacing​

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• Red Trinity Model (RTM)
  3 Rs for Recovery: Regulate, Retrain, Reestablish
  (For Sex/Porn/Love/Fantasy Addiction)

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I have had success with tailored, comprehensive behavior modification and recovery plans (abstinence and harm reduction) to address invasive and compulsive sexual and fantasy  struggles.This recovery work can be accompanied by anxiety, depression, ADD and PTSD symptoms.

 

 I have created a proprietary model for helping those struggling with these issues built on mind-body principles.  All addictions have a component, to a greater or lesser degree, of disconnection to the body. So to address unwanted behaviors, we must first start with embodiment—reconnecting somatically.  We aim to build interoceptivity—the skill of more accurately interpreting body sensations.  To do this, we start by using grounding, guided body scans and other nervous system regulating tools.  Once clients become skilled at these practices, we add elements of Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavioral Therapies to rewire and re-route thought associations that join pleasure/need with unwanted behavioral patterns. I teach clients how to use these tools synergistically in a way that works specifically for them, to reduce "addict-urgency" in the body & distortions in the mind, which, in conjunction with other recovery support, leads to reduction of compulsive behavioral patterns.

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• ​Red Clover Model (RCM)
  4 Rs for Realignment: Regulate, Reassure, Release, Reclaim
  (For Betrayed Partners/Partners of Infidelity)

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I have adapted  and expanded my somatic-cognitive-behavioral protocol to assist betrayed partners in healing from discovery and disclosures of infidelity.  Often, betrayed partners have suppressed or minimized their sense of bodily knowing and feel afraid to trust their own instincts. It is well-known in the field that it typically takes approximately18 months for the nervous system to regulate after partner betrayal. This 4-pronged process is designed to help betrayed partners to calm their bodies and minds in order to settle into a new norm of recovery and reclamation.

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​​Please ask about my Betrayed Partner Groups and Women's Retreats!

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• ​Coherent Uncoupling

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If "conscious uncoupling" is about how to leave, my model of "coherent uncoupling" addresses how to stay before you can leave. It is not just a matter of should you stay or should you go, but how do you stay before you can go. It has been my experience that many people remain in relationships way beyond their romantic satisfaction expiration date. This may be due to financial and parenting concerns, as well as myriad other complicated emotional entanglements and personal insecurities. Your well-meaning, protective friends and family will likely tell you to leave, as if this were always the best solution to your relationship unhappiness. I know it isn't that simple, and I want to offer you a middle ground—a way to find peace through divorce discernment, boundary-setting, therapeutic separations and, if/when the time is right, ending the relationship.

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Research shows that divorce is only problematic for children to the degree that there is conflict in the marital relationship.  My model of "coherent uncoupling" is designed to keep conflict as low as possible in relationships stuck in exhausting patterns of resentment, stonewalling, gaslighting, passive aggression, and overall contention.  You can do this skill- building work with your significant other or individually.

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• ​Sweet Spot for Intuitive Eating
  (For Chronic Dieting, Disordered Eating Patterns & Body Dissatisfaction)

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Reconnect with your body. Learn how to nourish yourself. Discover embodied pleasure.

Recovery from yo-yo dieting, binge eating, compulsive overeating, orthorexia and other distorted relationships with food can feel daunting, but it is possible.  From a foundation of Intuitive Eating (developed by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole), I have created “hacks” to help clients move into a powerful way of relating to food and their bodies.​