MA, LMFT
Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist

Counseling for Individuals, Couples and Families With Offices in Chapel Hill and Durham.

I have been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 1984. I found my artistic voice in 1998. Each strongly influences the other. Each is about not clinging to notions of self. I realized in the deepest way through my art how much is possible, how life brings possibilities, how fearlessness is at the heart of artistic creation and at the heart of a life well lived.

My work with people is critical to my life as an artist and my life as an artist is critical to my work with people. Through each I have learned that everything changes, meaning that life is always about movement.

Nobel Prize winning author Elie Wiesel says, “I write in order to discover.”

Psychotherapy is the process of therapist and client searching together with curiosity and determination in this discovering.

I see psychotherapy, individual, couple, family, as the integration of ideas; the examining and challenging of belief systems that we hold as absolute truth. Psychotherapy is about becoming consciously aware of our invented belief systems. Often these belief systems exist against evidence to the contrary. Therapy is about bringing awareness and action to change what doesn’t work in our lives. At any given moment we have a choice and it is this choice that is at the core of my work with people. What I ask from clients is that they come in only with curiosity and the willingness to engage.

My practice is currently in Chapel Hill and in Durham, North Carolina. I am currently accepting a limited number of new referrals.

Experience
Private Practice/Consulting               1995-2005 Boulder, CO
• Private practice specializing in individual, couple, and family issues.
• EAP contractor to Nationwide EAP/Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations.
• Program Coordinator Golden Sun Foundation to promote world cultural understanding (family and children’s program).
• Facilitated training in Expanding Creative Potential.
• Trainer; Coping with Organizational Change and Stress Management.
• Administered Management/Employee Training; Federal Contracts.
• Provided School Mediation and Conflict Resolution.
Lynn Bregman & Associates               1989-1995 –Los Angeles, Ca
• Private Practice – Individual and Group Therapy.
• Provided Mental Health /Case Management for Executive Life Insurance Company hourly and non-hourly employees (1000 Employees & Dependents).
• Maintained Work/Life resources and referrals.
• Involved in development of Corporate Health/Fitness Center and employee seminars.
• Developed and facilitated Management Training.
• Utilization review and flexing benefits to contain mental health costs.
• Managed Thermador Electronics EAP (on-site twice a month).
• Preferred provider for United Airlines and Chevron Oil EAP programs.
• Consultant for Care Resources in the development and marketing of EAP and Management Training Programs to Coast Community College, the City of Costa Mesa, City of Orange, and other City Governments throughout Orange County.
• Created various learning workshops for Care Resource clients.
• Part of an IPA ( Psych-Care Alliance) contracted to Value Behavioral Health.
The Holman Group               1983-1989 Los Angeles, Ca.
• EAP Account Executive for Capital Records, Columbia Pictures, Union Bank, Sanwa Bank, Toyota Motors, and Pioneer Electronics.
• Handled Service delivery issues for all aspects of EAP.
• Provided clinical and EAP services, 3-5 session model or short-term intensive outpatient work as determined by the contract.
• Provided Critical Incident Debriefing/ Drug Free workplace/Aids Training.
• Developed promotional and other informational media.
• Marketed and negotiated EAP and Managed Mental Health Care Systems nationwide, including provider network development.
Licenses and Affiliations
California Lifetime Teaching Credential 1978
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 1983
Colorado Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 1995
North Carolina Licensed Marriage Family Therapist 2006
Employee Assistance Professional Association (EAPA)