Counseling

I am a licensed psychotherapist with 25 years experience.  I see counseling as a collaborative process of discovery between the client and myself. I offer in-person counseling in my office in Bend and confidential video conference counseling.  I specialize in phase-of-life transitions including: divorce, empty nest, burnout, health crisis, grief, retirement, career change and marriage counseling.

Interactive Online Courses

Natural Way of Being online courses are interactive. They allow you to actively participate via online video conference for personalized guidance and support to unfold the things you seek in your life.  A topic is presented and you are invited to share your understanding or challenges with it. You can share how it feels to you, and receive personalized guidance to allow insight and understanding.

Intensive ​Workshops

Natural Way of Being intensive workshops walk you through a complete transition and rite-of-passage into a new way of being. They utilize sharing circles, personal ceremony, and meditation to directly experience your truth and natural way of being. They provide guidance and support to walk with your heart open and realign your life with the things most important to you.

Events

Deer Creek Summer Solstice Ceremonies
With James Barfoot, Eve Costello, Ann Coughlin, and Michael Hoffman
Thursday 6/21/18 - Sunday, 6-24/18 
Deer Creek, Sumpter, OR    
Four days of ceremony in the beautiful Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon offers the opportunity to journey deep inside yourself and awaken your connection to life and nature. This time functions as a retreat from your everyday life and allows nature and ceremony to balance and reconnect you. See More.

Books

Your Natural Gift is natural expression that spontaneously unfolds when you open your heart. This practical book walks you through identifying, unlocking, and offering your gift. Published in 2013.    Read excerpt. 

Natural Way of Being guides you to walk with your heart open and as part of life. It applies this new way of being to relationship, community, and creating the things you seek. Coming in 2018.    Read excerpt. 

Blog

Unexpected Transitions and Windows of Clarity 
March 14, 2018
An unexpected transition occurs when something happens that forces you to reevaluate and change your life. When things are going well, there is little incentive to make personal change. But then life happens. Just when you think your life is stable, something upsets your apple cart.  Suddenly, you find yourself navigating a divorce, career change, or family crisis. While such transitions may be disorienting, they create a window of openness to reevaluate your life.   Read more.
 “Man achieves the height of wisdom when all that he does is as self-evident as what nature does.”
~ I Ching (Wilhelm Baynes)