My career as a psychotherapist follows more than two decades as a business lawyer. Attorneys spend a great deal of time talking to people who are upset and angry, so much so that they often joke that they’re “really” therapists. Unfortunately, our adversarial legal system encourages scorched-earth fighting rather than reparative justice, and as a result the process can be traumatic even for the winners.
As a psychotherapist, I am better able to help my clients find ways to address their deeper human needs – to love and be loved, to be heard and understood, to have lives of meaning and purpose.
My approach is relational, collaborative, compassionate, and insight-based. I assume that my clients are the experts on their own lives, goals, and needs, and that my role is to help clients find and apply solutions that are consistent with their own values.
Education:
Yale University – B.A. in American Studies, 1987
UCLA School of Law, J.D., 1997
Alliant International University, M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2020