Therapy Services

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My style is engaging, thoughtful, humorous, and strengths-focused. I provide trauma-informed, holistic, and humanistic therapy to adult individuals, exploring and resolving the complex and nuanced ways our bodies both register and give expression to our inner lives and personal narratives. The symptoms my clients are experiencing are often behaviors, beliefs, or patterns of response that made perfect sense in previous contexts - often because it was the best/only option for survival. These become encoded in our bodies as templates for navigating the world. However, presently, the behaviors, beliefs, or responses may no longer be serving us, but we don't know how to change them in a meaningful, lasting way. Together, we will collaboratively re-architect your nervous system back to its naturally flexible functioning, which restores our innate capacity for intuitive decision making that reflects our dignity and attunement to our authentic Self.

My craft in deeper healing is experientially driven by evidence-based frameworks - Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Adaptive Information Processing Theory, Family Systems Theory, and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Your healing process is as unique as you are, therefore, my treatment is never a one-size-fits-all. While EMDR is the backbone to my treatment, I blend aspects of mindfulness, energy psychology, Ego State therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) to support my clients' process.

Down to the cellular level, our bodies are wired for survival, and are inherently oriented towards health, learning, and resilience. Our bodies use emotions and physical sensations to communicate important information, but unfortunately, so few of us learned how to listen to our inner system, let alone know how to interpret its messages! In fact, many of us grew up understanding emotions are something to be controlled, avoided, or held in. We don't suffer because of our feelings... we suffer because of everything we do to avoid feeling our feelings. Feelings don't stop happening despite our attempts to pretend they're not there! Emotions are an aspect of our biology and are a critical component of our humanity. 

There is a reciprocal relationship between our external world and our internal world. Our emotions and physiological sensations are energy in motion in response to a stimulus (external or internal).  When we are out of alignment with our authenticity and/or our highest state of health, our bodies will provide valuable feedback to let us know what needs our attention to restore our sense of wellbeing and neutralize the energetic charge within. When we don't practice this internal hygiene of neutralizing, our inner system becomes overwhelmed, disoriented (begins misinterpreting stimuli), and the unexpressed energy is stored in the surrounding muscles, organs, and connective tissues. This is how unprocessed experiences from the past "live" in the body presently.

While EMDR is inherently a body-based therapy, I weave in energy psychology and a variety of somatic-based interventions to deepen the bottom-up processing as I attune to your experience during our sessions. Some ways I do that include: building interoceptive/body awareness, breathwork, sequencing, acupressure tapping, consensual therapeutic touch, and movement.