Me!
I am the Director for a University's Psychological and Counseling Services Department.
I am the Clinical Director for a clinic working with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
I am the Neuropsychologist for a community-based mental health clinic in Long Beach.
I do expert witnessing for court trials and personality assessment.
I am a Professor to students in Graduate Degree programs.
I do dream workshops and training seminars, nationally.
I have a private practice in Whittier.
I ride my Harley on weekends.
I am a Marine Corp Veteran.
I eat breakfast for dinner.
I write a blog.
oh...and I love life.
Now don't get me wrong...loving life doesn't mean I am always happy, optimistic and open...instead I simply live my emotions...actually...sometimes they live out and take over my life. I think about what I'm feeling throughout the day and truly consider my feelings and how my actions affect others. I take things at face value but also consider the underlying foundation and meaning. We must be willing to take what the world/soul/others/etc give to us and what it is doing for us.
I turn events into experiences, I personalize the world around me...I look for the flying bird at my window...I notice the guy picking his nose in the car next to me...I stare at coffee shop patrons because I'm trying to feel out the world as it presents things to me. I don't blow up the world with my feelings or express them on open forums (facebook, instagram, etc)...but instead work through, self talk, and find the meaning in things.
This is why I find myself more honest and open than not. Why i'm smiling and touching the voice of the world in ways that many don't care to. In my work with patients I help them get through their COWs (crisis of the week) but also, I like to focus on the bigger picture and message in life. Who they are. What they want out of life. What are their fantasies and personal missions. What the hell does it for you!??!
I want to help people see the world as a place open to experience, where you are kind to yourself and pulling from your core, truth and real self. It exists...I promise.
When was the last time someone made you smile? truly, truly made you laugh until your stomach hurt? or even reminded you that there are really good people out there? How about the last time you cried your eyes out in pain? Had grief touch your soul after you felt your heart get torn out? I want to help people learn to disappoint another in order to be true to themselves. I want to teach others how to enjoy their own company when no one else is around. I want to walk on cliff edges, punch through, and set bars with chalk not sharpie. I demand growth, change and challenge for myself and that means...I will demand it from you and those around you. I love this role...I love meeting, talking and associating with others that feel the same and believe that sex jokes, laughing at ourselves, stumbling on untied shoe strings, falling off of bikes and picking your nose daily will lead to that happier world.
I absolutely love random conversation, I love playing as an adult, and for the most part enjoy anything that ends with "-ing"
I have become more aware of the importance of self improvement, meaning, growth, change, health and love. I believe in soul and finding glimmers of light in all things. Art...and all forms of it. Using the whole box of crayons, coloring outside the lines, wind over air conditioning, breakfast for dinner, classic diners, smile lines, worn boots, speaking from the core of your being, motorcycle riding and old war stories.
I believe therapy doesn't have to exist in a room or has to be done in session. Life is in session because life has side effects. I believe it exists anywhere you are. It is in your world, the one you live in. I believe that we all walk around with our own version of being "broken". Abusive relationships, substance abuse, distorted self expectations, and even jacked up opinions form it. This broken results in having a cracked foundation and holes in our form. This prevents change. This prevents growth. This stunts. That is the point of this community and forum. That is the point of this site.
So laugh it off...play it off...accept the criticism...piss on a bush...lick a toad...pick your nose...make sex jokes...wear something smelly...pick on your friends...fall off a bike...give money to the homeless...work lively...find meaning in a glue stick...look at the sprinklers giving life to grass...taste something slow...look for understanding in all things...pole dance in a library...don't interpret...do and do not assume...wrestle in chocolate pudding and licorice g-strings....and screw, screw, screw, screw (with the love of your life)!
Welcome to Just Psychobabble!
feel free to email me here:
soulful.reverie@gmail.com
I am the Clinical Director for a clinic working with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
I am the Neuropsychologist for a community-based mental health clinic in Long Beach.
I do expert witnessing for court trials and personality assessment.
I am a Professor to students in Graduate Degree programs.
I do dream workshops and training seminars, nationally.
I have a private practice in Whittier.
I ride my Harley on weekends.
I am a Marine Corp Veteran.
I eat breakfast for dinner.
I write a blog.
oh...and I love life.
Now don't get me wrong...loving life doesn't mean I am always happy, optimistic and open...instead I simply live my emotions...actually...sometimes they live out and take over my life. I think about what I'm feeling throughout the day and truly consider my feelings and how my actions affect others. I take things at face value but also consider the underlying foundation and meaning. We must be willing to take what the world/soul/others/etc give to us and what it is doing for us.
I turn events into experiences, I personalize the world around me...I look for the flying bird at my window...I notice the guy picking his nose in the car next to me...I stare at coffee shop patrons because I'm trying to feel out the world as it presents things to me. I don't blow up the world with my feelings or express them on open forums (facebook, instagram, etc)...but instead work through, self talk, and find the meaning in things.
This is why I find myself more honest and open than not. Why i'm smiling and touching the voice of the world in ways that many don't care to. In my work with patients I help them get through their COWs (crisis of the week) but also, I like to focus on the bigger picture and message in life. Who they are. What they want out of life. What are their fantasies and personal missions. What the hell does it for you!??!
I want to help people see the world as a place open to experience, where you are kind to yourself and pulling from your core, truth and real self. It exists...I promise.
When was the last time someone made you smile? truly, truly made you laugh until your stomach hurt? or even reminded you that there are really good people out there? How about the last time you cried your eyes out in pain? Had grief touch your soul after you felt your heart get torn out? I want to help people learn to disappoint another in order to be true to themselves. I want to teach others how to enjoy their own company when no one else is around. I want to walk on cliff edges, punch through, and set bars with chalk not sharpie. I demand growth, change and challenge for myself and that means...I will demand it from you and those around you. I love this role...I love meeting, talking and associating with others that feel the same and believe that sex jokes, laughing at ourselves, stumbling on untied shoe strings, falling off of bikes and picking your nose daily will lead to that happier world.
I absolutely love random conversation, I love playing as an adult, and for the most part enjoy anything that ends with "-ing"
I have become more aware of the importance of self improvement, meaning, growth, change, health and love. I believe in soul and finding glimmers of light in all things. Art...and all forms of it. Using the whole box of crayons, coloring outside the lines, wind over air conditioning, breakfast for dinner, classic diners, smile lines, worn boots, speaking from the core of your being, motorcycle riding and old war stories.
I believe therapy doesn't have to exist in a room or has to be done in session. Life is in session because life has side effects. I believe it exists anywhere you are. It is in your world, the one you live in. I believe that we all walk around with our own version of being "broken". Abusive relationships, substance abuse, distorted self expectations, and even jacked up opinions form it. This broken results in having a cracked foundation and holes in our form. This prevents change. This prevents growth. This stunts. That is the point of this community and forum. That is the point of this site.
So laugh it off...play it off...accept the criticism...piss on a bush...lick a toad...pick your nose...make sex jokes...wear something smelly...pick on your friends...fall off a bike...give money to the homeless...work lively...find meaning in a glue stick...look at the sprinklers giving life to grass...taste something slow...look for understanding in all things...pole dance in a library...don't interpret...do and do not assume...wrestle in chocolate pudding and licorice g-strings....and screw, screw, screw, screw (with the love of your life)!
Welcome to Just Psychobabble!
feel free to email me here:
soulful.reverie@gmail.com