for individuals

Welcome!

I’m already curious about what brought you here, and I imagine you’re curious about me. So please read the following to get a sense if we’d be a good fit.

Services

Clients often come to me for help navigating challenging life passages, including

• Individuation from limiting and painful childhood patterns into confident self-led adulthood

• Transforming cycles of conflict in relationships into secure and satisfying intimacy

• Making career and relationship choices from a foundation of self-connection, dignity, and intuitive truth

• Overcoming substance and behavioral addictions

• Integrating “peak,” “spiritual,” and altered states of experience

• Understanding midlife transformation, aging, and processing loss

My approach is collaborative, creative, and responsive. Though I don’t presume to know where you need to go, I know how to walk with you in supportive and healing ways.

Our work together integrates evidence-based somatic (body awareness), relational (you and I connecting deeply), and imaginal (parts work, dream analysis, re-enactments, archetypal themes) methods that address the whole (whole-istic/holistic) you—mind, body, creative spirit, and emotions.

Expect me to be curious, warm, and non-judgmental, and to actively participate in your journey. My practice is always centered on what YOU would like to explore and work on, and the methods that resonate with you.

My Guiding View

Many therapists view patterns of anxiety, depression, creative blocks, resentments, shame, grandiosity, contempt, rage, distraction, and addiction as adversaries to be silenced or vanquished.

In contrast, I follow non-pathologizing therapists Gabor Mate and Richard Schwartz in understanding these challenging parts of ourselves as understandable and sympathetic adaptations to physical and emotional threats and harm that happened to us in our pasts.

Me doing my job well looks like my clients building a foundation of self-understanding and compassion while blossoming into the most authentic, courageous, and vital versions of themselves.

Approach

My method is different from most mainstream therapeutic models in that it integrates a traditional relationship-based talking approach with embodied awareness (Somatic Experience), Depth (Jungian) analysis, and the Internal Family Systems Model.

As we collaboratively use these models to tend to your emotions, sensations, thoughts, and behavioral patterns, you will activate innate nervous system responses and emotional releases that can be more effective and expedient than traditional therapy.

• Relational—the quality of our relationship, your experience of emotional safety, and my attunement to your psychological needs are my highest priority.

• Parts work—views our personalities as comprised of various protective and wounded parts that we can learn to relate to from a healing core of empathy and compassion. The IFS process is often remarkably vivid and powerful. For example, popular podcaster Tim Ferris participated in a brief IFS demonstration, after which he titled the episode “IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs.”

• Somatic—you will learn to relate to your body in ways that activate emotional resilience and release. Maladaptive behavior, limiting beliefs, and emotional and physical pain arise in relation to experiences that are embedded in your nervous system [*].

• Depth—an orientation that views emotional and behavioral patterns as rooted in unconscious material. We will pay close attention to images, fantasies, and dreams.

• Mindfulness— For “grounding” by reducing stress and attuning to your inner state.

• Expressive Arts—Access and collaborate with your innate wisdom and authentic feelings through various creative practices.

Special Areas of Focus

• Trauma, PTSD, & CPTSD

• Childhood sexual abuse

• Spiritual awakening & Spiritual emergency

• “Medicine work” and psychedelic integration

• Intimacy & Attachment

• Performance Anxiety & Creative Blocks

• Shame

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Addiction

• Anger & Resentment