Services for Albuquerque, Santa Fe, & New Mexico

Although OCD is my main specialty, I also work with the full range of anxiety disorders and anxiety-related conditions.

I use Exposure and Response Preventation (ERP) as the centerpiece of my treatment of OCD and anxiety. This is an evidence-based approach that is considered a gold-standard treatment.

I also integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as Existential Therapy into my treatment of OCD and anxiety.

OCD was once referred to as the “doubting disease.”

Healing from OCD and anxiety centers around changing our relationship to doubt and uncertainty.

Instead of pushing away these states, we learn to tolerate and even embrace them as sources of meaning and insight.

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ~Kierkegaard

“Doubt is a form of radical faith. The only way we can remain faithful to the mystery of mystery is to preserve ambiguity. Certainty is the enemy of truth.”
~James Hollis

Grief and loss are often lurk beneath the surface of our lives, crying out for attention. I help clients access their grief, feel it fully, and move toward healing.

Common grief experiences I work with include the loss of relationships, life roles, and identities as well as loss associated with aging, illness, retirement, environmental destruction, and life transitions.

Healing from grief and loss requires patience and a willingness to feel our pain.

My work with grief centers around active rituals that help transform suffering into acceptance.

Grief and loss can be overwhelming. Understandably, we tend to retreat from these experiences, resulting in a heaviness of heart that can linger on for months, years, or even decades.

By opening fully to our grief, we can  transform this difficult human experience into a source of meaning and inspiration.

“Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force…. It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated…It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.”
~Francis Weller

“Loss, grief and betrayal are not just dismal places we must unwillingly visit, they are integral to the maturation of consciousness. They are as much a part of the journey as the places where we feel respite and would tarry. The great rhythm of gain and loss is outside of our control; what remains within our control is the attitude of willingness to find in even the bitterest losses what remains to be lived.” ~James Hollis