Raising children is alternately challenging and deeply gratifying, humbling and transformative. I work with families from pregnancy through early childhood onward, helping parents provide the secure base that children need on their developmental journey. Attachment research points to the vital importance of 'reflective capacity' in building healthy relationships--that is, our capacity to make sense of others' behavior (and our own) through understanding the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, wishes, intentions, and plans that underlie and motivate that behavior. AT THE HEART OF ALL SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS IS OUR CAPACITY TO REFLECT... whether parent-child, spouse-partner, peer to peer, or supervisor-supervisee. In clinical practice for over 20 years, I serve adults, couples, children, families, and organizations. Specializations include: infant-family early childhood mental health, perinatal depression/anxiety, fatherhood, co-parenting, divorce/custody, and short-term intensive family consultation (including home visits and school observations). In 2001, I developed the innovative Mindful Parenting Group model: a relationship-focused, parent-infant experience, promoting reflective parenting practices and secure attachment; approved by L.A. County Dept. of Mental Health and California Institute of Mental Health as a community-defined evidence (CDE) model for prevention and early intervention (PEI).
