As a trained marriage and family therapist, I specialize in the counseling and treatment of distressed couples and families. With a special interest in family dynamics and couples' interaction patterns, I have expertise in helping couples to identify and overcome barriers to closeness and communication as may be affecting their ability to meet normative challenges of family life. I have experience helping couples recover from extramarital affairs, manage emotional or behavioral difficulties of children, negotiate divorce, remarriage and step-family adjustment issues, and cope with non-normative and more highly stressful life events, e.g., death of a child, chronic illness, etc. Often, a crisis within a relationship--even something as serious as an extramarital affair--can be an opportunity for eventual development of deeper and happier commitments.