All parts of you are welcome.
Something I find myself often telling my clients is, "All of you is welcome here." All the messiness. All of the tears. All of the shame. All of the desires.
Because even the seemingly unlovable parts of us have something to teach us, and are integral pieces of the mosaic of our innate wholeness.
I will support you in bringing what's needed to light and holding all parts of your experience with compassion, curiosity and care.
My approach is client-centered, which means I don't see myself as an expert here to "fix" you. Instead, I see myself as a sacred space-holder and guide as you connect with your inner wisdom and innermost truth. You are a divine being on a journey, and I'm an encourager and lamp-holder along the way.
What would you like to shift? What would you like to create for yourself? How would you like to feel in your body? From there our work together will unfold.
Because even the seemingly unlovable parts of us have something to teach us, and are integral pieces of the mosaic of our innate wholeness.
I will support you in bringing what's needed to light and holding all parts of your experience with compassion, curiosity and care.
My approach is client-centered, which means I don't see myself as an expert here to "fix" you. Instead, I see myself as a sacred space-holder and guide as you connect with your inner wisdom and innermost truth. You are a divine being on a journey, and I'm an encourager and lamp-holder along the way.
What would you like to shift? What would you like to create for yourself? How would you like to feel in your body? From there our work together will unfold.
I pull from a medicine basket of multiple modalities to meet you with tools that are best suited to you and your unique situation. I utilize research-based counseling approaches and neuroscience along with somatic, intuitive, creative and experiential processes. Some foundations to my work are...
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. A huge part of the work I do is simply teaching people to listen to their bodies and create space for what they find- whether it be pleasure, energetic stuck-ness or an emotion that needs holding or release.
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 with intimacy and sexuality 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.
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 your strengths and uniqueness and creates space for healing, growth and expansion.