ABOUT
Since this page is titled “About,” I bet you are expecting to read all about my practice, credentials, philosophy, education, and maybe even something about my personal life! If I were looking for a therapist or coach, I’d want to know as much as I could about them, too, so I greatly appreciate your curiosity!
Before I answer some of those questions, I want to share something with you that is paramount to what I believe about therapy and coaching. Ready?
Therapy and Coaching are about you!
Therapy and Coaching are a collaborative process between you and me that is entirely focused and dedicated to helping you experience relief from pain, achieve the goals we establish together, and experience tangible and measurable results in the areas of your life that need improvement.
Let’s think about gardens…
To give you a better idea of what our work together might look like, I think it might be helpful to start with an analogy.
Try to think about the most significant parts of your life as if they were a series of gardens that you might find growing in your backyard. If you don’t have a backyard, then imagine them in your front yard, or on your rooftop, or maybe even in your garage! Picture all those gardens arranged in a circle, and standing right in the middle of all of them is YOU!
Which gardens do you see?
Now imagine that each garden represents one of the largest, most important, and most significant areas of your life. Most people identify these areas to be a career, health, hobbies, emotions, finances, family and friends, intimate relationships, and spirituality.
Some may even have an extra garden or two for something really specific and unique, but most identify the eight mentioned here. The size and significance of each garden are relative to each individual person, and most find that their gardens change in size and importance at different times throughout their lives.
Make sense? Can you picture yourself standing in the middle of your gardens?
What’s in your gardens?
Now within each of those gardens, there are varying amounts of good and bad things growing in them. Think fruits and vegetables versus rodents and weeds. Some gardens might not have anything growing in them at all.
Whether it’s planting new seeds, watering and fertilizing what’s already there, or reaching in and pulling out the weeds that are preventing your garden from growing, therapy and coaching provide you with the opportunity to work on your garden with a professional gardener (me!).
More specifically, therapy and coaching give you the ability to change what needs to be changed, protect and preserve what needs to remain, and to pull out the things from your life that do not benefit you.
Therapy and coaching provide you with a deliberate and uninterrupted opportunity to tend to the “gardens” of your life.
Are the benefits of therapy and coaching a tall order to fill? You bet.
Are they attainable? Without a doubt, YES!
I know this to be true because I see my clients experience the power and effectiveness of therapy and coaching every day that I have an opportunity to work with them.
I would like to able to see you experience these benefits, too!
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My Professional Background
After graduating from college, I spent a decade working in New York City in the media, technology, and advertising industries holding positions from engineer and producer up through mid-level executive.
In my early thirties, I switched careers to become a professional airplane pilot. For the next 12 years, I worked as a flight instructor, charter pilot, corporate pilot, and commercial airline pilot.
While flying, I became very involved in pilot assistance (safety, critical incident response, and professional standards). This interest led me to pursue professional psychology, counseling, and coaching. And the rest, they say, is history!
My Credentials
- I hold graduate degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in aviation safety systems and human factors psychology and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in clinical and counseling psychology.
- I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado.
- Although I have an eclectic theoretical orientation, my therapeutic approaches usually gravitate toward CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, and Existential modalities.
- I have specialized my practice toward assisting high-stress professionals working in high-risk/high-liability industries.
- I’m trained in treating complex trauma utilizing Comprehensive Resource Model and Brainspotting.
- I’m trained in several coaching paradigms (functional coaching, strategic intervention, and performance).