Current Groups

I am currently looking for women (sorry guys, see me in the Winter for a group based on Tales of the Sea) to join a 10 week poetry therapy group in Mukilteo this fall. This group will have 3 prongs: poetry, therapy, and spirituality. We will read Emily Dickinson, Jane Hirschfield, Mary Oliver and Sharon Olds, among others, as we process a particular issue from our lives through the lens of spiritual meaning. Writing poetry (and optional sharing of it) will be a part of this group. You can bring your dreams and favorite poems to share. This group is limited to 10 participants and will take place on Monday nights, for a very low fee of $20 per group (payment ahead for all classes is required). Pre-screening is required.

Influences and important links

As an undergraduate, I attended every course taught by my degree committee chair, Dana Jack, and as such obtained one of the best groundings in Women’s Psychology one could obtain without having attended Wellesley College!

The Stone Center at Wellesley College has a series of publications that have influenced my work, insuring that issues of race, class and gender are primary considerations in my practice. My relational theory roots come from here.

Diana Fosha impacted me deeply, enabling me to combine my studies of relational theory with the practice of emotion-focused core-affect methods.

Michael Eigen uses language that is at once poetic and insightful to describe this tenuous and indefinable field we find ourselves in.

My personal contemplative practice is essential to seeing clients, helping
me help clients more effectively. My teacher, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, offers teachings that are both thought-provoking and mind-settling.

Pema Chodron writes about "shenpa," a term I’ve come to value in working with addictions and compulsions of all kinds. It’s about how we get “hooked.”