I provide support, encouragement and a space of non-judgmental curiosity and mindfulness. My goal is to help you reconnect with your authentic self and source of creativity. I want you feel more grounded, secure, and empowered, no matter what challenges life is throwing your way. 

I work with Couples as well as Individuals and
specialize in the following areas:

• Relationship Problems

• Relational/Complex Trauma

• Life Transitions

• Grieving and Loss

• Depression and Anxiety

• Self Esteem

• Creativity

• Premarital Counseling

Counseling

My approach blends depth work exploring unconscious material with somatic practices that are more experiential and "here-and-now". My goal is always to help you develop that unique sense of Self-knowing and creativity that will allow you to be in the world with purpose, joy, and freedom. I'm a real person in the room with you, not a distant observer, and I absolutely believe you are the expert on your experience. My job is to help you access that experience on a deeper and more meaningful level.

I place a strong emphasis on connection, especially how you are in relationship to yourself. It feels to me that once we are in good relationship with ourselves, then our relationships to other humans, our earth, the universe, and spirit “out there” tend to get a bit easier as well as deeper. I also work more concretely with communication patterns and habits of thought, behavior, and believe. Oftentimes these patterns arise from attachment wounding or trauma and are part of internal working models or templates that were created when we were very young. Those templates aren’t always accurate to the world as it’s happening here and now. Catching those incongruities allows us to work at deeper levels to better understand and shift core beliefs.

What is Somatic Psychotherapy?

Somatic Psychotherapy (also known as Body-Oriented Psychotherapy) is a holistic approach to therapy that addresses the mind-body connection directly. It tends to be more experiential than traditional talk therapy and often begins by deepening our awareness of somatic sensations and how they relate to the physical, emotional, and mental "story". We may incorporate movement, gesture, or work with touch in order to help deepen that awareness. Approaching the here-and-now experience with this level of mindfulness teaches us to be with, and often influence, our own autonomic nervous system responses such as fear, anxiety, numbness, or dissociation.

While I incorporate a somatic orientation in all my work, counseling may or may not include more direct body-based interventions, and any such interventions will only occur with your consent.