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Every service we offer is informed by our brief therapy approach. Starting with the assumption that clients have the necessary resources for responding effectively to the challenges they are facing, we work as consultants to help them resolve conundrums and find and implement solutions.

Whether we are meeting with individuals, couples, or families, we are committed to working as efficiently as possible. We see our clients long enough for their situation to turn around, but not so long that they start thinking we need to be a continual fixture in their lives. As soon as possible and warranted, we take a step back and celebrate their ability to continue changing and adapting without us.

Some psychotherapists follow the medical model—they strive to diagnose some kind of “illness” as a starting point for helping. Such an approach works great for problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but it often isn’t warranted when it comes to difficulties you’re having with yourself—problematic thoughts, emotions, or behaviors—or difficulties you’re having with others.

We head in a different direction. We’ll want to make sense of your situation within the context of your history and your interpersonal relationships, and we’ll want a clear and thorough understanding of how you feel entangled. But rather than attempting to nail down a diagnosis of what’s wrong with you, we’ll be searching and listening for your strengths and capacities—the very resources that will help facilitate a disentangling.

We welcome all couples, regardless of sexual orientation and identity. Working with the partners together and sometimes also individually, we empathically explore possibilities for resolving conflict and enhancing intimacy. We help couples move beyond infidelity and other breaches of trust, restore sexual connections, and navigate the everyday challenges and spiritual demands of living, parenting, and changing in and out of sync with the person they love (and sometimes hate) most. And when betrayals can’t be forgiven, or when mutual respect and life paths can’t be found, we also help couples bring their relationships to an end.

Families come to see us for any number of difficulties, including grief, illness, depression, anxiety, school problems, parenting issues, conflict, domestic violence, substance abuse, addictions, and various life-transition issues—babies being born, kids going off to college, divorce, remarriage and step-parenting challenges, caring for elderly parents, and dying. We work with all members of the family who feel affected by the current concerns, and we ensure that everyone feels respected and heard as we strive to make sense of the situation from each person’s perspective, looking for solutions that protect each person’s integrity.

If you’ve seen hypnosis performed for entertainment on TV or the internet, you’ve witnessed the hypnotist transgressing social boundaries as a means of forging and exploiting the hypnotic subject’s mind-body connection. Nothing of the sort will occur if you pursue clinical hypnotherapy. I will respectfully invite you into a trance as a means of facilitating an effortless shift in your experience of yourself and in the unconscious workings of your mind-body connection. Hypnotherapy is an excellent way of transforming and ameliorating anxiety and panic; pain; depression; a variety of somatic complaints; problematic thoughts, urges, and behaviors; and various addictive cycles involving alcohol, drugs, food, and/or behaviors. I often teach my clients self-hypnosis, giving them the means to access their mind-body connection whenever warranted.

If you are interested, you can check out some articles on hypnosis that I’ve written for professionals.

Because we approach problems as knotted relationships, we are as comfortable working with groups, organizations, and businesses as we are with individuals, couples, and families. Regardless of who our clients are or how many people are entangled in a problematic situation, we look for ways to help solve conundrums, brainstorm alternatives, resolve conflicts, and foreground solutions and possibilities.

If you are a performer, whether an athlete, musician, or actor, you’ve no doubt felt the exhilarating ease, clarity, and pleasure of being “in the zone.” At such times, your mindful body and embodied mind merge in focus and intent. Hypnosis is a way of experiencing such in-the-zone immersion without first having to get on the court or field, pick up an instrument, or step onto a stage. I use hypnosis with performers to help them more easily find and maintain their in-the-zone effortless focus after they have left my office.

We are licensed to provide services for residents of North Carolina and Florida

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