Hearing You with My Heart
Psychotherapy & Counseling
Treating Adults, Families & Business Concerns
What do we do when we come to therapy? I hear and care about why you are coming. After you share what is bringing you, I respond, and then you respond to me, and this starts to form a connection. It is in this connection that you might discover more deeply WHO you are as a human being, not just your roles in life, what you need, and what gives life meaning and value to you. I also help us create together a “safe spot” where you can share without being judged or debated on why you feel as you do. You at least deserve to be seen, heard and accepted by someone you have carefully chosen, like ME!
“A solid therapy has to be theoretically based on truth; factually producing results, and respectful of human rights in every respect.”
-Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco, Ph.D.
The therapy I offer is tailored to your needs. Flexible yet goal-directed with an expert road map to address your concerns.
I also offer secialized services for clients who have a Christian background and wish to have Gospel-based applications and foundation to their therapy. For this, see tab on Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy.
Parenting from a Schema & Mode Perspective
Helping Parents With:
- Showing Children how to Handle Angry Child Mode
- Learning to not Pass on Fear & Anxiety to Children
- Learn how Attachment Motivates Children & How to Accomplish it.
- Reconciling with an Adult Child
- Family Reconciliation among Adults
- How not to Pass on Your Schemas
- Developing & Modeling Values & Virtue in Your Children
- Understanding how Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain
- Resolving Parenting Clashes
Marital/Couples Schema Therapy, Counseling & Marriage Intensives
Flexibly includes a number of other therapy interventions/modalities (e.g. EMDR, Gottman Method Couples Therapy; Emotion Focused Therapy; Somatic Experiencing; Cognitive/Behavioral, Gestalt, Chair Work, etc.)
Be better together.

Treating Issues that Affect Marriage & Relationship:
- Past Trauma
- High Conflict
- Affairs and Other Betrayals
- Personality Rough Edges
- Addictions in the Relationship: Shopping, Porn, Smoking, Sexual & more
- Sexual/Emotional Abuse in the Relationship
- Sexual Problems: Including Women’s
- Avoidance of Sex & Feeling Used
- Directional Couples Counseling: short-term counseling for mixed agenda couples
- Restoration of Relationships
- When You “Don’t Talk Much”
- Learn Connect-Talk® to Prevent or Solve Relationship
- Problems Before or After Marriage (click to read more)
- Understanding Why You Drink, How it Affects Your Marriage, or How to Deal with a Drinking Partner
- Using Vs. Misusing Anger
- Building a sound relationship home
- Healing missed bids for connection and “other disasters”
- Renewing affection & sharing dialog
- Understanding your marital/couple’s cycle
- Conceptualizing why you clash
- Resolving sexual issues
- Building a vision for the future
- Creating shared goals and meaning
Schema Therapy & Counseling for Individuals
Treating Individual Issues:
(flexibly includes a number of other therapy interventions, e.g. EMDR, Medical/Analytical Hypnotherapy: further information here. Gottman Method Couples Therapy; Emotion Focused Therapy; Somatic Experiencing; Cognitive/Behavioral, Gestalt, Chair Work, etc.)
- Depression/Unhappiness, including Chronic cycles of depression and anxiety Understanding Why, & What You Can Do About It
- Personality Rough Edges
- Addictions: Shopping, Porn, Smoking & Sexual, etc.
- Staying Motivated & Excelling at Work
- Anxiety, Stress & Sleep Problems
- Lack of Meaning in Life
- Low Self-Esteem & Confidence
- Loneliness & Social Shyness
- Compulsive Overeating
- Physical/Sexual/Emotional Abuse & other Traumas
- Understanding the Role of Early Trauma
- Sexual Problems: Including Women’s Avoidance of Sex & Feeling Used
- Reducing Pain & dealing with Chronic Illness
- Family Therapy & Reconciliation
- Restoration of Relationships
- When You “Don’t Talk Much” or are Closed Off
- Medication Management Referrals
- Learning from Divorce
- How to Find & Choose a Partner
- Effectively Managing Anger & Stress
- Calming One’s Reactivity
- Filling “unmet Needs”, such as for connection and personal sharing.
Coaching & Values Development
Coaching Help In:
- Focused-goal Achievement
- Connect-Talk®
- Building a Sound Relationship Home
- Healing Missed Bids for Connection and “other Disasters”
- Understanding the Role of Early Trauma
- Understanding how Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain
- Renewing Affection & Sharing/Dialog
- Building a Vision for the Future
- Creating Shared Goals and Meaning
They consist of an abbreviated intake and 4 twenty minute sessions per packet.
LEARN HOW TO CONNECT WITH
YOUR CHILDREN DIALOGICALLY




