Freud called Dreams “The Royal Road to the Unconscious” because they reflect our innermost concerns - concerns of which we are not fully aware. If you document your dreams and become aware of your own dream language, you will be amazed at the wealth of knowledge and the richness they bring to your self-exploration.

My Clients often speak of their dreams dismissively, saying that they are “silly”, nonsensical, and bizarre. I try to help them see each dream as a message from the Self to Itself, a jewel-like insight into their Unconsious. When we receive and review clues about our Unconscious, we can often use them to clarify and facilitate our Process.

When my Clients like to write or journal, we have an advantage. Therapy is a search for insight; and writing is a tremendous help in looking within. The things that my Clients write are keys to their self-understanding as well as a basis for important questions that their therapist might not know to ask if she were not their reader.

Marion Patrick's Depression II (1975) evokes the despair of manic-depressive (Bipolar) illness. What is the relationship between intense moods and intensely striking art? Could you allow your most difficut moods to create - to write, to paint, to dance, to photograph, to represent your feelings?

Harmful anger hurts us by taking over our thoughts and even our lives. Healthful anger may be a key to personal growth and healing when we use it to galvanize ourselves, surmount obstacles, break the chains that bind us, and go on our way.

A considerable number of my Clients hear Voices that I do not hear. Are these uncomfortable symptoms? Or are they are sources of knowledge and insight? I am always interested in hearing about them and in helping my Clients examine them. If you are interested in them also, please read further.

What is it that makes people who have just entered therapy want to make sudden, life-changing decisions? Early therapy is a time of fluctuating emotion, of changing desires and plans. This is a time to feel, think, and wait. So, one thing I suggest to my Clients is When in doubt, do nothing.

Growing up is a process, and it is a process to which we should give some thought if we want to understand ourselves as Human Beings and if we want to raise healthy children. Understanding how our early, middle and late development challenges us as we live and grow can be a vital part of goal setting in therapy.

People who have not learned to manage stress and/or anger or grief or who find it difficult to identify and express other emotions might drink or use drugs to keep those scary emotions at bay. Psychotherapy can help them recognize and deal with the powerful, unexpressed thoughts and feelings that sustain their addiction. It can help them do their “Inner Work”.

The idea that we could be addicted to alcohol or drugs, unable to stop using a substance and walk away from it, is widely accepted in our society. The idea that we might be addicted to some of our own emotional states (like obsessive love, uncontrolled eating, blind hatred) is less common in our day and age. Breaking patterns that harm us is a learned skill.

The brain also needs sleep in order to function optimally. During sleep, the brain attempts to repair neurons, make sense of our conscious activities, store memories, organize information, solve problems, and make decisions.

One thing that I have noticed in my many years as a practitioner is the tendency of parents to imagine that something is wrong with a child who has entered the teen years.

It is said that EFT can allow a person to align brain, physical body, and emotions to process various types of discomfort ranging from depression and anxiety to runaway emotions to phobias to physical pain to Trauma.