I am foremost a Psychotherapist by training. I hold a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology and am licensed as a Psychologist in Tennessee and Florida. I have held a successful solo practice in Nashville, Tennessee, and continue to see clients for “talk-therapy” or psychotherapy. If you are interested in my psychotherapy services please see visit Psychology Today.

During my practice as a Psychologist, I realized some of the limitations of my trade, in affecting processes of the mind that occur below the level of conscious awareness. As therapists, we often try to affect feelings from where they are being felt and thoughts from where they are being thought, which is obviously at the level where the client is aware of them.  However, the mind continuously processes information at many levels, a substantial portion of those processes being unknown, automatic, and, therefore, inaccessible to effect change in. For instance, people know what they are thinking and what they are feeling, but I don’t believe that people are choosing their thoughts or selecting emotions or sensations. I am interested in communicating to all levels of the mind, including shifting where thoughts and feelings are generated from. By affecting the mind at all levels, when improvements do occur, they are more automatic and natural, and therefore long-lasting.     

I am excited to be helping clients by offering neurofeedback training among my services. I became interested in neurofeedback after practicing hypnotherapy. Hypnosis is simply: “Purposeful communication utilizing connection, credibility, and effective language to get a desired response from the subconscious mind.” Neurofeedback complements my hypnotherapy practice because they both target processes of the mind that occur at the level below of conscious awareness. While neurofeedback helps the brain self-regulate optimally, hypnotherapy focuses on the data (e.g., beliefs, meanings, memories) that produce unwanted thoughts and feelings. Indeed, I use hypnotherapy and neurofeedback together in ways that I describe more in detail under “Alpha-Theta Training.”