FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
While I have generally relied on an hourly rate, I have been flexible to everything from retainers for a certain time frame to sliding scales for people who are experiencing difficulty
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
The most important part is discovering who this client is and what he or she needs. The only typical part is listening. Everything else has to be custom made. For example, relationships may have what could be called typical issues like sex, in-laws, money, children but the variables of who people are, how they interact, what may work or not for them demand intense curiosity, a mind that is open to infinite variables and a passion for creative solutions.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have undergraduate and graduate degrees but training with great innovators in Human Potential in the 1960s-1970's really shaped me: the Morenos in Psychodrama, Fritz Perls in Gestalt Therapy, Will Shutz in Group Encounter, Masters & Johnson in sex therapy, Elsworth Baker in Reichian BodyWork & Wanda Willig in Hornian analysis. My personal work began at 19 with my own challenges; my original research which became Ecco was born out the pain of my own relationships, not one theory I had adopted from training. Because I had experienced everything from classical analysis to Grof's Holotropic Breath Work, there are too many teachers to credit for what synthesized into my work. This current work with clients is an experiential process that lives and grows, not a system that is confined to the many techniques in which I received training. I was a student at Esalen Institute long before I ran workshops there. I believe you can only take others as far as you have gone yourself so my own learning never stops.