I love this work.

I bring proven skills, science and compassion to support people to find themselves again, or perhaps for the first time, beyond the pain and uncertainty of depression, anxiety, traumatic experience and wounds from childhood.

 

I collaborate with individuals who want to find their way out of feeling stuck, anxious, depressed, lonely, ashamed, fearful or disconnected. I use proven, effective methods that foster real change, making it possible for people to experience joy, inner-confidence, love and well being.

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While I draw from a handful of methods, there are several basic approaches, I find especially effective:

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Somatic-based trauma and attachment repair approaches--

It turns out that trauma is fundamentally held in the body. As a trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (SP), I work with clients to heal and integrate past traumatic experiences,  significantly reducing and eliminating the chronic symptoms of PTSD and C-PTSD. This body-based approach is instrumental in transforming shock-trauma from injuries, surgeries, assaults and accidents that occurred at any stage of life. SP is also a powerful approach for healing chronic anxiety and depression, and other behavior patterns like addictions.  Successful SP treatment lead to a greater sense of openness and freedom from old messages, feelings and behaviors about ourselves, others and the world that had previously kept up feeling stuck in our lives and relationships. SP is considered a cutting edge treatment approach by key experts in the field of psychology, including Daniel Siegel and Bessel Van der Kolk. Learning to listen to the messages in the body can not only show us how to reduce reactive emotional patterns caused by traumatic experience.  Somatic treatment can powerfully reduce the negative beliefs about self and the feelings of guilt and shame that so often accompany untreated trauma.  Clients can learn quickly how to use these tools, and the counseling environment provides the necessary safety and for optimal treatment. After sessions, clients often report having an immediate sense safety, inner strength, and positivity.  

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I also offer Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) to reduce more significant symptoms of trauma that are the body's way of surviving childhood abuse or neglect. TIST treatment has been used for decades unlock healing pathways allowing clients who may have tried therapy for years without much progress to finally experience healing that can lead to more stable, engaged, and balanced lives. 

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Cognitive & Dialectical Behavioral Therapies (CBT & DBT), informed by Buddhist psychology and interpersonal neurobiology--these approaches work to reduce and transform negative patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that often lead to chronic stress, risk behavior, anxiety and depression. 

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Mindful Self-Compassion

Self criticism and insecurity can be toxic. When we are caught in the trance of unworthiness we can shutdown, withdraw from others, and become unable to experience the warmth and support of healthy relationships. 

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Mindful Self-Compassion enables us to build healthy, supportive relationships. We can rewrite our internal beliefs about ourselves to build confidence, self-worth, and a life-changing practice of inner kindness.

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