16055 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1020, Encino, California U.S.A. 91436
818-780-7619

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MODALITIES:

Psychotherapy is accomplished in a variety of modalities. INDIVIDUAL therapy often helps to contain a crisis, identify feelings, enhance awareness, promote personal responsibility and change, and helps to resolve unfinished business. RELATIONSHIP therapy can enhance communication skills, resolve conflict, identify common goals, promote healthy boundaries and teach negotiation. FAMILY therapy helps by identifying the workings of the "system" which operates to keep the family from changing to a new style, and helps the individuals within the system to learn respect and empathy as they find they can get their needs met in a new way. GROUP therapy provides an atmosphere of commonality in a dynamic setting of exploration in which members benefit from their own and others' contributions. Sandy has facilitated therapy groups for Incest Survivors, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adults Who Were Molested As Children and Growth Groups for Creative Individuals.  She presently offers a Dreamwork Group.

AFFILIATIONS:

It is important to recognize that affiliations are a matter of preference. Sandy is associated with a great many groups that provide ongoing updates regarding research findings, relevant studies, and colleagiality. Some are Local, some are National and others are International. If you'd like, you may browse into these websites. Feel free to do that (recognizing that they bear responsibility for their own content) and know you can return here with the “BACK” button on your computer screen.

ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS:

METHODOLOGY:  

The therapeutic alliance that is created between the client and the therapist is the primary dynamic which stimulates the healing process. Feeling confident to talk about important issues occurs after the trust is built. For some, the talking itself is the key to healing. Knowing you are valued in the context of your life story encourages the freedom to explore more difficult areas.

For some, additional creative healing methods may be helpful. Sandy's background in the art world provides for a variety of creative aspects to be employed. These may include: working with clay, creative imagery, non-verbal dialoging, emotional and relational sculpting, or journaling.  Be sure to talk about your interest in these.

Dreamwork can be a powerful tool to finding the internal ally. Sandy has been working with dream imagery for more than thirty years and has found that great wisdom and insight can come from the smallest fragment of a dream as well as the most horrific of recurring nightmares. Her philosophy holds that dreaming is a method by which the subconscious delivers “benevolently-intentioned” information. Working with dreams in the psychotherapeutic setting provides an opportunity for that wisdom to be honored, which can help to promote lasting positive change.

A non-traditional Sandtray is available for the externalizing of personal themes. It can be a powerful tool in the therapeutic process when a client “sees” for the first time the dilemma that surrounds them in their everyday life. Because this is a changeable medium, there is empowerment when one sees and accomplishes the resolution of the challenge in the sandtray, and can then imagine it accomplished in their life as well.