Since 1988, in my psychotherapy practice at my office, I have had extensive experience in single-session therapy and crisis intervention, and, in this new age of managed care, my short-term skills serve me quite well.

The use of the Internet has permitted me to expand my services. My "office" is now no longer where I see just local clients, but includes clients from around the world. The majority of my clients call me to request phone sessions of Personal Performance Coaching and Emotional Freedom Techniques. Although this is certainly a therapeutic intervention, it is not "therapy" in the conventional sense. "Therapy" sessions are conducted in the office. However, some of the energy modalities I use are easily adapted for phone consultations.

I have been leading Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) sessions for a number of years. As a volunteer for the State of Maryland CISD team, I was involved in debriefing firefighters, police officers, and ambulance crews after they made difficult rescues. Those debriefings averaged about three hours, but there was always the flexibility for them to be longer or shorter depending on the needs of the group.

As a member of the Maryland team, I was sent to the Baltimore-Washington International Airport to debrief hostages as they returned from Kuwait. It was the team's job to meet the former hostages after they cleared security and talk with them as they waited for the planes that would take them to their final destinations. Most of them had lost all of their belongings as well as loved ones. We tried to bolster their defenses and assist them in putting some of those horrors behind them.

I have been invited to a number of job-sites across the United States where work-related calamities have occurred. I have been sent to retail stores, restaurants, hospitals, and banks after armed robberies, sudden deaths, and murders to help employees and managers sort through the myriad emotions that surface for them after such incidents. I have provided counseling through Workers' Compensation insurance programs to assist employees.

Most recently, I was involved in CISD's after September 11, 2001. I worked in New York at many companies on Wall Street and in Washington, DC at a number of sites, including at the Pentagon, as well as at other government agencies.

I serve as a supervisor of the CISD team at Sheppard Pratt Psychiatric Hospital in Maryland and have met with doctors, nurses, and other staff members after patients have attempted or committed suicide or have assaulted staff members or other patients. On several occasions, debriefings were needed when staff members died suddenly. As a supervisor, one of my jobs is to be available to debrief the other members of the debriefing teams as well. I have provided EAP counseling to employees at that hospital after such calamities.

My initial training in CISD was in the Jeffrey Mitchell model. Anxiety levels appear to be reduced by this approach. Since my training in the energy modalities, including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), I have found many methods that are even more effective than CISD as a secondary intervention in reducing the effects of trauma after the initial group-debriefing. Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR) is another fine method for reducing or resolving trauma. I would recommend EFT and TIR for those who are identified as continuing to have difficulties in returning to their previous levels of functioning in their personal and professional realms.

I recommend EFT as the first intervention because in most cases, it appears to work even faster than TIR. I've used it successfully for treatment of traumas, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), phobias, many physical discomforts, stress reduction, and to enhance sports performance and business performance. It is also more convenient for most of my clients since they can experience and benefit from EFT during our phone consultations.

For three years, I was the crisis interventionist in the Emergency Department (ED) of a Baltimore hospital and provided the grief counseling and anticipatory grief counseling for patients and their families. It was also my job to debrief the medical staff after difficult procedures. I also did all the assessments on suicidal patients and provided short-term counseling in the ED. I developed a specialty in working with parents of children who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

I teach grief counseling and have worked with 13-year-old children through a local school to teach them how to approach grieving friends and relatives.

For a few years, I met monthly with the members of the Victim Assistance Program (VAP) of Baltimore County, sponsored by the State's Attorney's Office, to offer group-support counseling to those people who have experienced deaths of loved ones through homicide or drunk driving murders.

Psychiatrists-in-training at Sheppard Pratt Hospital have requested that I supervise them on issues involving counseling in the area of grief and trauma.

In addition to the above, I have a private practice involving trauma counseling, utilizing EFT, many other energy therapy methods, as well as TIR. These methods can be used successfully to treat depression, anxiety, specific phobias, grief, and trauma. They can also be used to reduce many physical discomforts and to enhance sports and business performance.

I receive referrals internationally from health-care workers as well as mental-health professionals and clergy. I have phone clients from all over the United States and in many other countries.