INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES
My clients typically are well-integrated, functioning people requiring minimal external structure, thus available to explore and discover at a greater depth. The best way to get where you're going is to be where you are, and learning to access your natural resources.

• Personal Sessions: I see clients in a peaceful home-setting in Healdsburg, California in the midst of Wine Country, as well as during regular visits to the Ann Arbor Michigan Area.
  
  
• Phone Sessions: Available wherever you are! Ongoing, or intermittent personal and intimate conversations are highly effective and convenient ways we can work together.

WEEKEND GROUP SESSIONS
Group Sessions encourage deep, personal exploration. During the weekend we remain together on-premises to both integrate the extraordinary energy generated by the group, and allow room for personal processing. Special benefits include:

• Stimulating individual "One-on-One" work done within the community of the group where each person's work serves as a catalyst for the others.
  
  
• The interaction of participants within the context of the group is enhanced by relationships forged outside of the sessions, adding another valuable dimension.
  
  
• The highly synergistic final result provides each participant with a total effect that becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

INTENSIVES
Intensives are natural outgrowths of Weekend Group Sessions designed to offer Individuals or Couples extended daily sessions over a period of several days or more. Participants work free from external responsibilities (relationships, work, domestic tasks), and outside distractions, offering incomparable value as clients experience:

• The opportunity to be entirely free with their own processes.
  
  
• The protection, permission and potency of our relationship, which fosters a depth of discovery and ownership beyond regular sessions.
  
  
• A process and environment that invites participants to relinquish existing external structures (providing mere illusions of security), for viable internal structures.
  
  
• A renewed trust in the ability to deal with the consequences of freer thinking and feeling.
  
  

PERSONAL COACHING
Coaching has been implicit in my counseling practice from the beginning. It is a natural and inherent ingredient in a comprehensive psychotherapy relationship that offers clarification and support towards identified personal, and/or business goals.

• Life Coaching - is a forward oriented journey of personal, professional and spiritual evolvement where we work in partnership. As questions, concerns and impasses naturally emerge, I draw upon my psychotherapy expertise to address them in-stride.
  
  
• Recovery Coaching - is a specialized version of Life Coaching specific to those reconstituting their lives after active substance addiction, trauma, or intense grief.

In both Life Coaching and Recovery Coaching I help you:

• Identify your goals and wishes
• Design a plan to achieve them
• Address impasses (real or imagined)
• Access emotional skills and resources that will work for you
• Nurture emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual evolvement
• Access, embrace and celebrate . . . YOU!

THE FOODIE SHRINK™ GATHERINGS
These fun and informative gatherings explore and celebrate our relationships and experiences with food. Participants learn more about themselves, their families, other people, and cultures through our singular and stimulating food adventures.

• The Foodie Shrink Supper Club^sm is both an entertaining and enlightening venue, where small groups share their individual “Food Stories” over “pot-luck” meals. Participants become more aware as to why and how food can influence who they are.
  
  
• Food Story Circles^sm are in-depth Group Sessions offering each participant the opportunity to achieve a greater understanding of their developmental experiences and relationships with food. In the context of the Circles; participants gain useful glimpses into their “Food Scripts,” the family, and the cultural/ethnic roots that contribute to shaping their food relationships.
  
  

ORGANIZATIONAL AND BUSINESS CONSULTING
My work with individuals and groups is also applicable to professionals within the corporate world. I consult with internal leadership, management teams, and other stakeholders by applying Natural Processes to their specific business needs and environments.

Corporate Development and Executive Consulting

• Internal Communications
• Team Building
• Individual Productivity
• Stress Management
• Creative Problem-Solving

Consumer Research and Discovery Sessions

In traditional Focus Groups, participants are invited to share their opinions, beliefs, and perceived needs as they understand them. In this unique service, I conduct our sessions in a way that generates content that's a product of the group process (i.e. bringing into consciousness that which was previously inaccessible to the participants . . . information they did not know that they knew and/or believed).

This approach is especially valuable in accessing the underlying emotional variables that predispose perception and behavior, or subjective content. The information gleaned from these sessions provides the business client with a more informed direction to pursue in Product Development, Marketing and Advertising. Moreover, these sessions can be useful in-house to determine real goals, wishes, availability and more.

Sessions Conducted on Behalf of Clients Have Included:

• Perception of health care
• Perceived distinction between skin and body-care; cosmetics and makeup
• Why people smoke
• Perception of gift-giving
• Phone function and design
• Response to diet products
• Response to fast foods and drink
• Male perception of home security
• Perception of the banking experience