I believe that complementary approaches can offer powerful opportunities for healing and growth. They provide unique opportunities that sometimes seem to find their way to our lives by way of synchronicity. Most of us have heard the quote, “When the student is ready the teacher will appear...” which has certainly been my experience through the years. For example, I studied for twenty years with a teacher and mentor who taught me a great deal about spiritual and relational psychology. Her teachings included healing modalities from earth-based wisdom which I now integrate in to my work as a psychologist. Most of all, that experience opened the door for me to embrace an emerging branch in the field of psychology called transpersonal or spiritual psychology.

Complementary approaches have been a key part of breathing new life into my work as a therapist, and of nourishing my own soul. My traditional training has provided a strong framework to sift through these approaches in a grounded and discerning way which has then allowed me to embrace the best of them with an open heart. I continue to be influenced by theorists and practitioners who are ushering in innovative concepts about how people heal and transform.