The practice of psychotherapy constantly evolves making ongoing exploration and learning essential. Consultation and training helps us maintain our curiosity and excitement as well as efficacy in our clinical practices.

I provide clinical consultation and training to psychotherapists who address and treat the impact of trauma and attachment disturbances. As Beatrice Beebe points out in The Origins of Attachment, "Face to face communication in the early months of life set the trajectory for patterns of relatedness as they develop over the lifetime." Bumping up against these powerful patterns in my work with children, adolescents and adults spurred me to find methods of therapy larger than the world of words.

Therapists looking to integrate narrative and play therapies with a wider range of non-verbal, body oriented interventions to make these early learning templates available to change will find my individual and group consultations useful.

In the consulting process, I integrate exciting new information on the brain, body, memory, learning, and state change to add new skills and perspectives to your current repertoire. I also look at the layers of systems in clinical cases, from the intra-psychic, to dyadic, to the family, to larger community systems such as schools. This approach is essential for child and family clinicians working in complex systems where trauma is not fully recognized or understood.

Consultation can involve role-play, experiential exercises, case presentation, self-exploration, video, and didactic education. At times, I address the therapist's regulation, non-verbal attunement, and early learning as we each carry our own early templates for connecting, regulating, and meaning making into our offices. These relational patterns often impact cases for which we seek consultation.