Focused Problem Solving :
This is short term treatment, five to twenty visits, with a primary focus on resolving a concrete, specific problem. Examples might include insomnia, stress, procrastination, overuse of alcohol or other substances, obesity or conflict with a family member or coworker. My job here is to ask lots of questions; make an assessment, formulate an action plan; and assign homework. My goal is to promote concrete, specific change.

Psychotherapy:
Here my focus is on helping my clients to better understand themselves: how their emotions work, what motivates them, what is behind their important life choices. This work is not time limited or directive. It's goal is to improve the client's experience of being alive and help them to gain more satisfaction from their relationships and their work. Tolstoy said it best when he wrote "Life on this earth would be heaven if we could work for the one's we love and love the work we do."

Executive Coaching and Organizational Development:
In the business world, whether you work for a corporation or for yourself, people skills are a must if you are going to succeed. One needs to manage up as well as down and build good working relationships with peers. Project managers, no matter how competent, will only succeed by gaining participant's good will and cooperation. And even during slower economic times organizations need to retain good employees.

In these highly complex, demanding work environments it is easy to find oneself stuck in a problematic situation where the more one tries to solve it, the worse things get. Even more confounding, the more one tries the very solutions that seem logical, tried and true; the solutions advocated by the experts, the worse things get. In short, you find yourself unwittingly struggling in the proverbial quicksand.

What's needed here are solutions that are counter-intuitive, creative and unique and that's what my work with the business community is about. I help my clients understand the vicious cycles they are caught in, what is minimally necessary to change them and provide the coaching and support to implement a new solution. I call this work strategic organizational problem solving.