Psychology is the practice of understanding people.

The first ingredient in helping people is to understand their strengths, abilities, experiences, and passions.

The second ingredient in helping people is to understand their traumas, stress, challenges, emotional wounds, and interpersonal wounds that have impeded their ability to fully utilize their strengths.

Understanding strengths and wounds requires an in depth assessment.  A good assessment should include hearing the individual’s current life and personal history, extensive psychological and personality testing, and a clinical evaluation.

A good assessment is always the best foundation for good psychotherapy.  Good psychotherapy produces a balance of self-understanding, understanding of others, leading to successful and integrated relationships.  This is our ever constant goal in therapy.

Psychotherapy in our office always begins with an extensive Intake Evaluation and Social History. This Intake Evaluation includes first sitting with the individual and hearing what is important to them and to find out why they have come.  Then, we direct the client through their personal history.

Matters important to Ron

Understanding what is right before looking for what is wrong.

Integration of life, work, play, physical health, spirituality, relationships, family, social life, life’s difficulties.

Effective communication.

Understanding and effectively utilizing feelings.

Increasing self-understanding, which leads to good self-esteem which leads to humility and a contribution to the world.

Seeking truth and being honest.

Styles and preference in therapy

Always, my first orientation is Self Acceptance and Understanding regardless of the presenting situation.

My work is very eclectic. I employ techniques from EMDR, Gestalt, Jungian, Focusing, Bioenergetics and other holistic therapies.

I practice a faith-based psychology which integrates the individual’s faith orientation into the therapy.

Most of my work is with women and adolescent girls, however, when trauma is involved, I work with men, women, and children.