When I first became interested in psychology, a psychologist I consulted at the time advised me to live and work with as many different people and groups as possible to accumulate lived experiences from different perspectives. Of necessity, I have followed this advice and am grateful for the opportunities I have had in developing an appreciation of the dignities, challenges and complications in different walks of life.
I appreciate the complexity and multi-determined life each of us has as individuals in the context of our total lives and history, emphasizing how we meet the opportunities and challenges of finding our way in the contexts of our unique path. In this perspective, I have been influenced by mutually enhancing training in the depth psychology of psychoanalysis and systems training in groups, appreciating the larger contexts in which we all live.
Believing that every theoretical orientation has value and contributes to the overall understanding and effectiveness of psychological development and treatment, I appreciate how each perspective provides complementary views of the complexity of the human experience. From this stance, I attempt to engage each interaction with the hope and expectation that we will each be provided with an opportunity to learn, grow and enhance our awareness of our actual personal agency in any context.