I work best with clients who are motivated and are open to tapping into the innate wisdom of the body and deeper spirit. I see time and time again that the path of transformation arises not from the therapist, but from the individual. Utilizing the sacred therapeutic space and developing a trusting and accepting environment allows one to listen into their own wisdom, inherently recognizing when and how things are ready to be let go of, when healing is ripe to occur, and when patterns are ready to shift. I view my role as co-creator of that space, offering freedom to verbalize needs, truths, and gentle invitations to go deeper into one’s experience while trusting what unfolds within each person. I value empowerment of each individual over dependence on therapy services. 

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My ideal client is one who has bravery and courage to want to know themselves and their gifts at a deeper level, even if there appear to be obscurations to that knowing. I enjoy supporting those who have a spiritual practice or are interested in what that could look like. I work best with those looking for interventions beyond a cognitive-only framework. I am also relationship-based, encouraging connection, building of trust, acceptance, attunement, and co-regulation within the relationship. Feelings, beliefs, and patterns within the therapy relationship itself can provide fertile ground for healing and shifts in relating. Practices of repair, validation, identifying and honoring needs, choice and boundaries, and finding new levels of honesty and vulnerability within the container of the therapy relationship can be powerful tools for transformation and learning. 

 

I support people in being curious about aspects of themselves that may have split off from the whole through rejection, trauma, overwhelming experiences, or lack of acceptance by family or the larger culture. Experiential modalities such as ego state work and somatic therapies can support one in learning about, witnessing, healing, and reclaiming these aspects. 

 

I believe we all have a wholeness and genuineness within that can be reconnected with to foster resilience, strength, and vulnerability. I support others in seeing that things that are viewed as obscurations to this innate nature have had a functional capacity within our life experiences, and can become less solid aspects of our experience through clearly seeing them, accepting them, and having gratitude for what they’ve done for us. In this way, transformation is less about getting rid of things we don’t like or changing who we are, but befriending ourselves and our patterns to create more freedom within our experience and reactions. 

 

I strive to create an environment where wholeness, awareness, and non-violence permeate the therapy relationship and mechanisms of transformation. Awareness is cultivated in sessions through mindfulness, curiosity, and non-judgmental acceptance in and out of session, as well as gentle invitations to return to one’s experience as it is. It is only from a place of awareness and acceptance that moments of contentment and transformation of inner patterns can occur. Befriending our qualities, patterns, and even what one would like to be different is the starting place. My intention is to  model this within the therapy relationship. Compassion and kindness towards oneself and others can be built upon this foundation. Both can come both naturally, and with practice, as one begins to be familiar with and accept what was previously rejected or repressed.

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I strive to balance talk therapy benefits with interventions and experiential exercises in session that foster awareness, mindfulness, increased understanding, and changing of inner patterns of relating with one's self and the world. Practices for resilience, regulation, mindfulness, and compassion are also practiced to be utilized in day to day life.

 

I utilize the framework and principals of polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, yoga therapy, Hakomi, nature-based practices, EMDR, mindfulness based stress reduction, and Buddhist philosophy in working with others. 

 

My experience with specialized populations: I provide individual therapy to adults only. I have experience working with those with chronic illness, chronic pain, grief and loss, first responders (EMS, fire department, dispatch, search and rescue), those in the medical community, survivors of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, survivors of sexual assault, those whom have experienced traumatic events still impacting their functioning, and those with complex trauma, dissociative identity disorder, and other dissociative responses.

 

All of you is welcome here! It is my intention and commitment to provide a safe and accepting space for all of you: all genders, races, sexuality, spirituality, beliefs, identities, bodies and sizes, political beliefs, abilities, values, and even what may be unknown or unexplored!

I strive to provide an unconditional, agenda-less presence that honors your ability to create your path towards wholeness.