I've spent my working life helping people through difficult times: first in Sweden, where I trained and practiced psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy, and since 2004 in the United States.
Today I'm licensed as a Mental Health Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida, and as a Professional Counselor in Colorado and Arizona. I'm also a Master's Certified Addiction Professional, and a Qualified Supervisor in Florida, which means I supervise counselors and therapists who are working toward their own licenses.
Over the years I've worked with individuals, couples, families and groups, including people living with addiction, trauma and serious mental illness. I'm also trained in crisis work with children, adolescents and families.
How I work
I believe the most important thing I can offer is careful, empathetic listening: to what is said, and to what isn't said yet. Many problems have an obvious side and a hidden side, and lasting change usually needs both. My approach is integrative. I draw on psychodynamic therapy, family systems thinking and practical, goal-oriented work, and I shape it around you rather than fitting you into a method.
My background in Jungian psychology gives me a deep respect for meaning, symbols and the spiritual side of life, for clients who want to explore it. For those who ask, I also offer integrative therapy that includes astrology.
Languages
I offer sessions in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. For people from Scandinavia living in the United States, talking in your first language can make it easier to reach feelings and memories that are hard to put into English. Du är välkommen att skriva och tala svenska.
Licenses
You can check each license on the state's own website by searching for my name or license number.
- Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) License MH16017 Verify with the state
- Florida Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) License MT3511 Verify with the state
- Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) License LPC.0022640 Verify with the state
- Arizona Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) License LPC-24110 Verify with the state
Education and training
- Webster University, Florida: Master of Arts in Counseling, double track in Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy
- Hansson Psychotherapy Institute, Sweden: professional training in psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy
- University of Gävle, Sweden: Bachelor of Arts in the Science of Religion and Jungian Psychology
- Malmö University, Sweden: studies in the Science of Rehabilitation
- Kepler College, Seattle, Washington: Bachelor of Arts in the Art and Science of Astrology
- PATH International: Certified Equine Specialist
What the letters mean
- MA
- Master of Arts in Counseling
- LMHC
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor (Florida)
- LMFT
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Florida)
- LPC
- Licensed Professional Counselor (Colorado and Arizona)
- MCAP
- Master's Certified Addiction Professional
- QS
- Qualified Supervisor for registered interns (Florida)
Away from work
Horses have long been part of my life, and I'm a PATH International Certified Equine Specialist.