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Here are some examples of how I have helped people like you.

A successful lawyer and his wife demonstrate that couples therapy can help them work through an extramarital affair. They were able to recognize the affair as a cry for help. It became a stepping-stone to a deeper, more intimate, and more satisfying marriage. Read more…

A Chief Operating and Financial Officer, referred by his physician for depression, demonstrates that combining individual psychotherapy and couples therapy, provided the learning and support they needed. This was a couple that learned how to find a balance between work and family life, an essential ingredient for the success of their marriage. Read more…

This couple demonstrated the value of Marriage and Family Therapy when the continuation of their marriage was in serious doubt. They gave themselves six months of counseling to determine whether they could reconcile their differences. Even though I was successful in helping them to really hear each other they arrived at a decision to separate, a painful decision for both of them. Their therapeutic process made them more able to separate with less acrimony and greater clarity and compassion than would have been the case without Marriage and Family
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A CFO from a Fortune 100 company demonstrates that Emotionally Focused Bodywork can both eliminate acute back pain and provide support for stopping executive burnout. This example underscores how important it can be for someone in a leadership role to have someone to talk with, who is outside of the hierarchy. Read more…

A highly successful lawyer in his early 40’s, realized that there need not be a contradiction between his personal and professional life. He learned to be present and more aware in his body with the combination of traditional psychotherapy and emotionally focused bodywork. In a collaboration with his referring psychotherapist, he found the capacity to pro-actively establish appropriate boundaries at work and communicate more sensitively and listen better to the woman he was seeing.
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An astute clinical psychologist in her 50’s with many years of her own therapy under her belt, demonstrated how combining traditional psychotherapy and emotionally focused bodywork helped her to go beyond her intellectual self-protective defenses to connect more deeply to herself and her body. Read more…

An inventor and teacher in his fifties demonstrated that using Alternative Therapy to advance self-healing from a physical injury with Structural Integration Bodywork released the underlying holding patterns in his musculature. At the end of his session, when he walked around the room there was no limp and no pain. Read more…

A highly regarded architect in his 50’s, demonstrated that using Emotionally Focused Bodywork in a collaborative partnership with him and his acupuncturist and primary psychotherapist can connect him more deeply to himself and his body as he continues to recover from sexual abuse. His impressive understanding of his healing process is portrayed in a conversation between the two of us.
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"Matthew's counsel has been invaluable to me in multiple situations. For example, I hit rock bottom physically after working 24x7 on a major acquisition for several weeks. Specifically, my back began to spasm on nearly a continuous basis. While I was taking more and more muscle relaxants and Advil, I was finding it more and more difficult to manage through the pain. Matthew's help was invaluable in many ways. First, he helped me through the most acute pain with hands-on physical therapy. Second, he helped me see the true linkage between my emotional and physical health as well as the criticality of focusing on the healing of both at the same time. Finally, he helped me see the need to embrace my body as a critical element of my own self rather than as something separate and distinct from my mind and my thoughts. This insight was invaluable towards helping me deal with the stress of my job and ultimately to develop the ability to self-heal by embracing my true self.

Matthew's insights are truly groundbreaking and his application of these insights can help any human being. Matthew's counsel has meant the world to me and I could not overstate the potential value of Matthew's ability to others."

CFO Fortune 100 Company

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