I provide holistic care and compassionate presence to support clients in their healing and evolution. I integrate psychological, mindfulness-based, somatic, experiential and creative approaches and tailor the work to each client's unique needs and process. I offer the option of psychedelic support to those who are drawn to and a good fit for psychedelics as a complimentary tool to ongoing therapeutic work.
I see myself not as an expert but a sacred space-holder and guide for others to connect with their own inner wisdom and truth. I do not diagnose and treat mental health disorders or medical conditions of any kind. Instead, I work within a client-centered, positive, relational model that celebrates client strengths and uniqueness and creates space for healing, growth and expansion.
I see myself not as an expert but a sacred space-holder and guide for others to connect with their own inner wisdom and truth. I do not diagnose and treat mental health disorders or medical conditions of any kind. Instead, I work within a client-centered, positive, relational model that celebrates client strengths and uniqueness and creates space for healing, growth and expansion.
FOUNDATIONS TO MY APPROACH
Somatics
The body and mind are intricately interconnected and interwoven (it's more like a bodymind!) and the body holds information and wisdom not readily accessible in our conscious awareness. That is why you can't think yourself out of trauma, and why some feelings/problems persist after years of talk therapy. By bringing the body into our awareness with intention and care, we can access embedded patterning and create shifts.
Parts Work
Even the seemingly unacceptable parts of us have something to teach us, and are integral pieces of the mosaic of our innate wholeness. I support clients in bringing what's needed to light and holding all parts of their experience with compassion, curiosity and care.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory provides a scientific framework for understanding our nervous systems. It teaches useful tools for how we can regulate our emotions and experience connection and safety. Do you find yourself anxious, activated and stressed? Shut down, immobilized and collapsed? These are states regulated by your Autonomic Nervous System. I help people start to recognize these states in their bodies, and learn skills for bringing themselves back to calm and connection.
Attachment and Inner Child Work
Our early relationships have a profound impact on our ability to form meaningful, secure and intimate connections as adults. Your early experiences of relationships might be showing up in your struggles in current time. I carefully tend to early childhood and attachment wounding and provide space for bringing repair to early attachment needs. When the younger you that didn't get what they needed is tended to, the healthy adult can show up more fully.
Buddhist Philosophy, Mindfulness and Non-Judgemental Awareness
Our patterns of thinking and feeling directly shape how we experience ourselves, our relationships and the world. When we cultivate mindful awareness of these patterns, without identifying with them or judging them, space is created to make shifts. We can engage in meditative and mindfulness-based practices that support our bodies and minds in becoming more present, grounded and heart-centered. Extending compassion to ourselves and others and recognizing our interconnectivity with all of life allows us to live more fully, meaningfully and authentically.
