INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING TO:
- Assist you in working through difficult life changes
- Honor your experiences and perspectives
- Validate your self-worth & help increase your self-esteem
- Support your recovery process & challenge defeating beliefs
- Help you determine healthy limits & boundaries
- Encourage self-honesty & the releasing of negative patterns
- Learn tools for: communicating directly, differentiating with love, empowering your choice-making
counseling to couples, individuals and groups
TEACHING & GROUPS
Workshops and Trainings On:
• Grief & Loss • Couples Counseling/Skill Building • Organizational Team Building • Creativity Enhancement
• Sexual Assault Survivors • Art Therapy/Expressive Therapy • Co-Dependency Recovery • Lesbian/Gay/Bi Support • Relationships & Recovery • Lesbian/Gay/Bi Couples Counseling • Adult Children of Alcoholics • Sexual Addictions Recovery • Dispute Resolution • Self-Care for Caregivers"Let go of fear... regardless of the path we choose, either one may lead us to care,
to abundance, to wholeness.
The spirit of love and creation is not so scarce that we will be forever lost if we make the wrong choice.
Whatever we choose, wherever we go,
there will be some doorway, some opportunity, some person or situation
that may bring us what we need." —Anon
WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY
"I
wanted to let you know that we gained much from the workshop. You did a
great job of presenting and explaining the concepts and tools we
learned. Also, thanks for sharing a bit of yourself with us. I can tell
that you care, and that means a lot. We have much practicing to do but
now we feel 'hopeful' and look forward to more intimacy and growth." — Jim and Pat
"... you were a
sheltering wing in a storm...you held us softly, carefully—together and
separately—while we worked on our relationship. I know it is your
job—but that doesn't mean that I can't treasure and be grateful for the
gentle way that you worked with us." —Alice and Pamela
"I
just wanted to say thanks—for many things —having the courage, strength
and spirit to give all of us the opportunity to heal further by
offering us yourself and this group...sharing your own vulnerability
and grief yet never faltering to be a therapist when needed. I am in
most gratitude for the repeated opportunity to witness something that
is foreign to me—soulful, self-loving artistry and homage as response
to devastating loss and pain. To let hope and healing walk into the
room with me again—and they've been missing a long time." — Bob
"Thank you for helping me clear the debris so that I could see the beautiful garden that grows inside me. What remains for me is the new person I have become. The circle is open but never broken" — Martha
"Frances is one of the rare
individuals I know who understand the art of psychology and the
psychology of art. Excellence is her mark in both fields and so is
sensitivity, compassion and dedication." — Nina Menrath, Sonoma State
University Professor
I am trained in individual and couples mental-health counseling and all services rendered by me are done so from within my capacity as a Pastoral/Spiritual Counselor. I use an
eclectic mix of humanistic, transpersonal, cognitive-behavioral,
psycho-dynamic and positive psychology and I work from a feminist
perspective.
The spiritual perspective from which I practice counseling is that:
All human beings have an innate desire for balance, health and authenticity. We are intentional; we seek meaning, value and creativity. Humans are an integral part of nature who have choices and responsibilities. We are social beings, finding meaning in relationships to others, to nature, to ideas and sometimes to spirit. Much of life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals. Human beings are layered and complex, we cannot be reduced to components.
