Very gentle therapist - So important. Learned about the grieving process and now I can have an idea of where I am in it and how it actually functions within. Lovely, comfortable, safe environment and felt a closeness to the group. Thank you!

I didn’t expect to get anything real out of this. I didn’t expect to be glad I came. I did and I am and I think that’s in large part due to the way everything was organized. That everyone got a turn only when she was ready and I was surprised that everyone’s issues dovetailed so neatly. The environment felt very safe - and that’s what was so important and what I didn’t expect to find. I appreciate your insights and perception and gentleness. I appreciate the fact that you care. All in all, I feel better. Couldn’t ask for more right now. Thank you!

Since I’ve been back I can’t stop thinking about last weekend. I really can’t recall feeling so safe and taken care of (while being so scared and anxious at the same time) to the point of really being able to share so much about me and what has happened in my life. I am continually impressed by your ability to create that trusting and safe environment

It’s important that everyone gets to do this grief work....fabulously creative and incredibly good reactions to an every flowing process. You took great caretaking in very emotional and fragile situations.

The trust and safety you created was impressive. It is what allowed the work that we all needed to do to emerge. I could go on and on about how important this weekend was to me and how impressed I am with your talent.

This has been a most enlightening weekend. It was a pleasure. Being very cautious of my emotions and somewhat critical as well as skeptical about leaders of workshops. I was very impressed. I was impressed with your sensitivity and really approved of the direction you took with each of us. I was very aware of how careful you were with each of our psyches. I had no idea where we were going, but I felt such trust in you and your techniques that I let you inside and you were firm but gentle and guided me through some very “primal” feelings. Also, you acknowledged this was not just adoption-related, which mean a great deal to be validated.

Thank you for opening your heart and your home to all of us. As you have said, there are coincidences and all the people that were here seemed to have circumstance and issues that helped each other. This weekend helped me focus on many issues and made me see a few things I thought I’d resolved were still with me with your help and the others that were here. I think I have begun to put the past in the past and can begin to build the future I don’t really know how to say thank you for that but please know that I am grateful for the healing you helped me achieve.

The concerns you showed for me I thank you. I feel I’ve found someone who really knows the dynamics of addiction and how to run a support group. Thank you for challenging, risking, caring and just being there for me.