As we experience life in our family - first with parents, then with significant others - we develop strategies for surviving and thriving.  We form beliefs about our selves and what it is to be alive.  We develop internal (physical, emotional and mental) and external (behavioral) strategies starting from our first moment.

Although our survival strategies served us in growing up in our family, they also limited, and continue to limit, the expression of our core Self and our experience of aliveness and intimacy.  Living our survival strategies can mean living with depression, anxiety, spousal abuse, chemical dependency, inability to sustain intimacy, sexual dysfunction, migraines and other emotional and somatic problems.

 That is why people come to therapy.

As psychotherapists, we use our tools and knowledge to help people understand and be aware of their survival strategies and the core Self that is always there, hidden behind the facade of their survival strategies or “ego”.  We help them to consciously experience life in a new way so that they can modify their survival strategy to be more fully present in life and love.

 Although we use several different therapy styles in our work. the central theory and practice that brings us together as a group is based on the body-mind-spirit interface.  The work is called Integrative Body Psychotherapy*.  It is a powerful joining of the best elements of Object Relations, Gestalt, yogic and Reichian breath work.  In effect, the mind work of psychotherapy is done in concert with full aliveness in the body so that the intervention is experienced in the mind, the emotions, the body and, ultimately, in the core Self. 

 Our clients learn to experience the core Self, fully alive in the body, unencumbered by the survival strategies of childhood.

*for more information on Integrative Body Psychotherapy and the Rosenberg-Kitaen IBP Central Institute, go to: