The Power of EFT 

I love using EFT because it works. Ninety percent of couples who complete the process will report significant improvements in their relationship. Seventy percent will report being cured of their presenting problem. In my experience, all clients who complete the process report feeling empowered, more self aware, and more adaptable. EFT is a change process. The positive effects will spill out into life beyond your relationship. 

Why Does EFT work? 

EFT focuses on the right things. Couples get locked into bad patterns. EFT understands why those patterns get created and how to unlock them. Prior to EFT, couples counselors focused mostly on cognitions, behaviors and communication skills. Those topics are important—but never sufficient. No couple will achieve lasting change by learning how to speak more clearly or listen more deeply. The reason is simple: our deepest emotions are hidden yet they govern our lives. The very emotions that we struggle to identify and share are the ones that influence our thoughts and actions the most. To make matters worse, it is extremely hard to find and clarify these emotions on our own. Couples need a guide to lead them into their emotions and the emotional patterns that influence their cognitions, behaviors and communication. Clients will achieve a deeper understanding of themselves, their partner, and how their relationship functions. We grow and change through EFT because it accesses the deepest causes of relationship conflict. Couples emerge from the process feeling closer, stronger and more secure.

Individual Work: Counselor Specializing In Life-Threatening Blood Disorders

Fear, anger and disorientation come with catastrophic medical conditions. The terror—and sometimes humiliation—of life as a high-risk patient can be hard to shake. Speaking to someone about medical threats and the effect they have on life can be a very helpful. Even in crisis, we can find our feet and get grounded. Spiritual challenge and physical change can be managed if we have an opportunity to process what has happened to us.

I see individuals with life-threatening illnesses because I myself wanted a counselor who understood what it is like living very close to death. After twenty years of acute and chronic illnesses, I survived an allogeneic stem cell transplant and graft-verses-host disease. The cure to my condition reduced my vulnerability but also created new problems.  I offer understanding and compassion to at-risk individuals.

I have extensive experience with the hematology divisions and the blood and marrow transplant centers of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Cancer Center in New York City, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.