History
As a licensed Psychotherapist I listen deeply with caring presence, offering reflection and suggestions. I move at your pace, checking in often to be sure we are on the right track, exploring what has lead up and contributed to current struggles, exploring feelings, ideas, and alternative options, encouraging you to consider a bigger vision in your life. As a somatic based psychotherapist, I include the experience in the body, renegotiating and resolving deeply ingrained patterns from early conditioned beliefs.
Specialties
Body-based approach to treating trauma; such as war; abusive relationships, surgeries, and high-impact accidents. Somatic Experiencing draws on the subtle, organic intelligence of the body to build upon already existing internal strengths. Strengthening our capacity to be gently present with difficult experience, in the presence of safe and reliable support, is the key to resolving stress impressions from past trauma, restoring confidence and clarity, enthusiasm, and lasting growth. Unless we connect body process with experiential awareness in the presence of safe and reliable support it is difficult to heal through the difficult body based memory of trauma. Through the body-based modality of Somatic Experiencing we find answers to chronic, long-term struggles, a natural clarity of our unique talents, strengths and creativity, a sense of ease, confidence and kindness in our journey forward.