Attachment theory, relational psychology and Jungian theory strongly influence my work. I believe that the growth of people, like the growth of plants and other animals, is a natural instinctual process that is sometimes interrupted by trauma or early deficits. Treatment involves the identification, exposition and healing of wounds, and the defensive coping strategies that develop from them, in a profoundly caring and intimate context. Cognitive behavioral techniques are often essential in arresting destructive behaviors but my deeper interest is exploring and integrating the pain and wounding from which the behaviors spring. From my perspective, psychology, in its truest form, is a literal translation of the word: the 'logos' word or reason, of the 'psyche' or soul.