Therapeutic Approach

Through our work together, I gently invite you to inhabit your whole self, soulfully. Together, we will invite in slowness. Re-membering who you are. Re-building or re-inforcing a life that is aligned with your values. Re-connecting to land and community.

The challenge I issue you is to bravely face the depths of your psyche, to stand strong in the face of darkness. To turn inwards, not away, and embrace what you find there with compassion and forgiveness. To welcome the visitor at the door, whether you perceive she comes bearing gifts or torches.

My approach is somatic, embodied, and relational. I attempt to balance constructively in the dialectical space between worlds. Between acceptance and change. Structure and free-flowing inquiry. Left brain and right brain. Concrete and intuitive. I do my best to meet you where you are and gently guide you on your journey.

I draw primarily from somatic attachment psychotherapy, internal family systems (IFS), EMDR, and brainspotting. Our work together will be trauma-informed, inclusive, queer-affirming, anti-oppressive, and collaborative.

Ready to dive in, or have more questions? Let’s chat. Contact me to book a free consultation.

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Selected Professional Trainings

  • We store trauma in our bodies, nervous systems, and the right side of our brains. Thus, trauma work needs to be rooted in the body and right brain as well. Working within a strong therapeutic relationship, we will help you turn inwards and deepen your connection to your body, allowing for healing, metabolizing, and integration of the trauma stored there.

  • We all have many parts of us - protective parts, parts that manage our life, inner critics, hurt parts, reactive parts. Think of them as sub-personalities, like in the movie “Inside Out”. As you get to know each of your parts, you might come to realize the important role each part plays and eventually even learn to love and accept them, leading to greater understanding and compassion for your self.

  • Given the right supports, your system naturally wants to move towards balance and ease. EMDR offers a protocol that supports your brain in moving out of stuck traumatic memories towards homeostasis and relief. Using bilateral stimulation, including eye movements, tapping, or handheld buzzies, EMDR may be able to help in the treatment of trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, addictions, and more.

  • Brainspotting is a powerful, focused therapy that works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting works with the deep brain and body to access and heal experiences typically out of reach of the conscious mind.

    You and I will collaborate together to find eye positions known as “brainspots” that are linked to your distress. Mindfully focusing on the brainspot stimulates a deep integrating and healing process within the brain.

    Brainspotting has been shown to be effective for physical and emotional trauma/distress, medical and accident trauma, PTSD, anxiety and panic, phobias, addictions, cravings, ADHD, and chronic pain.

    Interested in trying Brainspotting? Reach out and let’s chat.

  • A harm-reduction model using plant medicines, coming soon for clients currently working with me.

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

— The Guest House, by Rumi