Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling offers a space to slow down, listen more deeply, and make sense of patterns that may have once helped you survive but now feel limiting, painful, or confusing. You may be navigating anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, life transitions, trauma, self-doubt, or a sense that something in your life is asking to change. Therapy can help you build more capacity to be with what is true, understand your reactions with compassion, and discover new possibilities for connection, choice, and growth, at a pace that honors your nervous system and your lived experience.
• Increasing Self-awareness
• Meaning and Purpose
• Finding Your Life Path
• Spiritual Exploration
• Personal Growth
• Self Esteem
• Self-Care/Compassion
• Conflict Resolution
• Communication Skills
• Sexuality and Gender
• Relationship & Family Issues
Common Areas of Focus
• Chronic Illness
• Nervous System Regulation
• Anxiety & Emotional Distress
• Complex Trauma
• Attachment
• Life Change/Transition
• Grief and Loss
• Addictive Tendencies
• Feeling Low and Hopeless
• Living in Alignment with Your Vision/Truth
Complex & Relational Trauma (C-PTSD)
Humans are biologically and neurologically shaped through relationship - nervous system to nervous system - especially in our earliest years of life. Through our relationships, we learn who we are, how we manage our needs and desires, and whether we experience ourselves as worthy, capable, valued, and safe.
Most of us have experienced some degree of misattunement or relational harm, even from caring and well-intended caregivers. Our caregivers may have loved us deeply and still missed important cues, needs, or emotional experiences. Because many of these wounds happen in relationship, healing can also happen through relationship.
For this reason, the therapeutic relationship is a vital part of meaningful change. A strong therapeutic relationship can offer a new experience of attunement, safety, honesty, and repair, supporting clients in developing greater trust in themselves, others, and the possibility of healing.
Foundations of My Approach
Hakomi
Somatic Psychotherapy
The Hakomi Method is at the forefront in the field of mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy. Hakomi is based in the principles of mindfulness, non-violence, organicity, and change. The root of the work is seated in present moment experience. These experiences illuminate unconscious core material and neural patterns that inform the way we see ourselves and the world. Through a loving, gentle, and safe container, The Hakomi Method assists clients to enter a place of self-study, somatic and emotional exploration, discovery, and profound transformation.
NARM
NeuroAffective
Relational Model
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is a mindfulness-based, developmentally-oriented, and neuroscientifically-informed clinical treatment for addressing complex, relational, and developmental trauma. Early, unconscious patterns of disconnection deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. By focusing on establishing connection to the parts of self that are organized, coherent and functional, NARM provides a model that supports self-regulation and personal agency, restructuring adaptive strategies into coherent narratives and behavior change. NARM uses both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Top-down approaches emphasize cognitions and emotions as the primary focus. Bottom-up approaches, on the other hand, focus on the body, the felt sense and the instinctive responses as they are mediated through the brain stem toward higher levels of brain organization. Using both bottom-up and top-down orientations greatly expands each client’s response capacity and neural integration.
PAT
Primary
Attachment Therapy
Primary Attachment Therapy is a mindful, experiential, attachment-based approach that explores how early relational learning continues to shape adult relationships with self, others, and the world. Drawing from Hakomi principles, interpersonal neurobiology, and present-moment therapeutic relationship, this work brings gentle attention to the attachment patterns, needs, protective strategies, and relational expectations that arise in real time. Rather than focusing only on past events, Primary Attachment Therapy works with what is happening in the here-and-now — in the body, nervous system, emotions, and relational field — to support increased security, new patterns of connection, and greater stability and satisfaction in intimate relationships.
RCS
Re-creation of the Self
Re-Creation of the Self (RCS) does not focus on the content of our beliefs, nor on the history of how we got to be who we are. Instead, it attends immediately to the awareness of which state of consciousness we are in. By inviting people to shift into a different state, R-CS provides opportunities to make empowered choices that can relieve us from painful feelings and self-critical attitudes. Because the essence of our Ideal/Organic Self is already present, the work is not an exploration and gradual healing of old wounds, but rather a momentary self-implemented choice to embody an already existing and essential way of being.