I help parents repair and nurture their relationships with their children and adolescents. I help partners learn better ways to access each other.

I help families deal with divorce or separation and its aftermath, no matter how long that has been. I am a trained Mediator for child custody disputes.

I also help couples dealing with infertility problems.

I specialize in working with multicultural and/or multigenerational (adult children, in-laws) : individuals, couples, families, children, adoptees, immigrants, and second-generation Americans.

With my personal experience as a partner in a multicultural marriage and mother of a biracial child I am sensitive to the issues of these populations. I help multicultural couples live harmoniously in spite of their differences in values and interests. I help immigrants and their American-raised children sort out conflicts that arise from growing up in different childhood environments. I help biracial children, second-generation Americans, interracial adoptees and immigrants get comfortable with one or a mixed ethnic identity which is crucial for these individuals as they navigate the issues of belongingness. I use language translators if needed.

"In the dark times, will there be singing?
Yes. There will be singing about the dark times" – Bertolt Brecht

"Psychotherapy might be called the science and art of establishing relationships. It allows people who do not know each other, and who come from profoundly different backgrounds, worldviews and circumstances, to engage in honest conversations that often lead to personal transformation. This transformation happens because therapy has rules of engagement, developed over decades, and based on premises such as that the way people enter into a conversation influences its outcome and that true change occurs only in the context of relationships." – Mary Pipher