Everything changed on April 18, 1997. My husband and I were hit by a car while making a right turn. I was hurt. In what seemed like a blink of an eye I was no longer just a therapist wanting to help my clients, I was a human being who needed help recovering from a trauma and I was physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually in trouble. I was in constant excruciating pain. I wasn’t capable of seeing more than a few clients a week and I was afraid of losing my practice. Angrily, I sat with the question of “why me, why now?”

Seeking Alternative Therapies

Traditional medicine was not helping me; living with the pain was not an option. I wasn’t willing to passively accept my state of health, so the remaining option was to start looking at alternative approaches. As life would eventually show me, recovering from my injuries provided the opportunity to become a mind/body expert and it influences how I practice psychotherapy today.

Energy Psychology can help restore balance to mind/body and spirit.

I used various mind/body interventions to recover because I found one approach didn’t help with every symptom. Using a holistic rather than traditional approach I learned:

• Physically: to listen to my body, manage the pain, and clear the trauma
• Mentally: to identify and clear self-sabotaging beliefs about my ability to be successful again
• Emotionally: to clear all the emotions around the trauma
• Spiritually: to connect with my intuition and trust my deeper wisdom

The Mind/Body/Spriit Connection

Early in my career I became interested in the mind/body connection. I wanted to know how thoughts, the pain from traumas and stuck emotion were held in the body. I also wanted to know, how this holding influences beliefs, behavior, health and energy. I wanted quick non-invasive and effective treatments because talking sometimes re-traumatizes the individual. I knew there had to be other approaches and my goal was to find them and get trained in using them.

Since the accident, I have traveled across the country to get trained in various mind/body psychotherapy approaches. My practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist is in the Lakewood/Long Beach area. [ map ] I work with clients who experience anxiety, depression, phobias, trauma related symptoms, chronic pain and relationship issues.

I have found energy psychology to be profound and life-changing, not only for my clients but in my personal life as well. I am passionate about working with people who want a greater level of mind/body connection, who are interested in connecting to their deeper wisdom and who are willing to go those extra miles to heal.