All are welcome!

Some areas of special training and focus

that I offer include:

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- Individual adults of all ages

- LGBTQIA+

- meaning, spirituality

- capacity for presence/mindful awareness

​- building self-trust and ease

- PTSD, shock-trauma

- Attachment trauma and injury

- life transitions

- end of life

- neurodivergence

-highly sensitive

- dissociation

- identity

- depression

- anxiety

-unresolved anger

- capacity for connection/intimacy

- emotion and nervous system regulation

- transforming reactivity into trust in self and others

- loss, grief, complex grief

- negative relational patterns

- boundaries

- survivors of loss of loved ones from suicide

- Saturn Return navigation

- Buddhist-oriented

- Anthroposophically-oriented

-spiritual emergency

- astrology-adjacent 

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​I work with a wide variety of people from different backgrounds, origins, identities,

bringing proven skills, understanding and compassion to support people to come to know themselves more genuinely and honestly, beyond the hindrances formed by fear, pain, disappointment and uncertainty. These hindrances include patterns of depression, anxiety, traumatic memory, and/or relational wounds, losses, or truncated developmental experiences during childhood. 

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Working with me, I will encourage you to collaborate with what your mind, emotions and your body are saying about what may be internally blocking your pathways in life. Many individuals I work with want to find their way out of feeling stuck, limited, anxious, lonely, resentful, ashamed, fearful, overwhelmed or disconnected. Over the years I have worked with many people who may also be experiencing chronic health conditions in addition to how they may be struggling emotionally, relationally, energetically.  Frequent symptoms can include insomnia, inflammation, chronic pain, cardio-vascular conditions, fatigue and low energy.  I am connected to a strong network of outside specialists that I can refer you to if you are suffering from complex medical issues along with the mental/emotional issues you are wanting to address.

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I will work with you to try to help you get the support you may need to access fuller changes, and perhaps newly experience a greater sense of well being. This can include referrals for medical care, adjunctive therapies and specialists.

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*PLEASE NOTE:

I do not offer CRISIS COUNSELING services.

If you are interested to work with me but are currently in crisis with your mental health symptoms, I advise you to immediately seek help from a Crisis Counseling specialist and/or agency

to immediately address and support you to stabilize any emergency needs and symptoms. Symptoms may include high suicidality, psychosis, under- and untreated severe disorders such as manic episodes and other acute severe Bipolar disorder symptoms, and severe acute substance abuse conditions and symptoms. Once you are have established symptoms stability, you may reach out to me to discuss if my services would be a good fit for your needs and goals.

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I draw from several key modalities that over the years I have found to be especially effective:

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SOMATIC and IFS adjacent APPROACHES:

As a level 2 trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, with over ten years of full time experience.

 

Short term somatic approaches can be very useful to reduce or perhaps eliminate shock trauma symptoms, such as car and sports accidents, medical/surgical trauma, and dog attacks, for example.

I also work with individuals wishing to transform long term, recurrent emotional or behavioral patterns and self beliefs that keep hindering one's path in life and/or relationships.  Addressing cycles of reactivity and avoidance, feelings of self-defeat, loneliness and isolation. Somatic approaches are well-suited for those who are hoping for an alternative to traditional Talk Therapies to address grief, loss, life transitions, depression, anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, and difficulties establishing and maintaining healthy relationships.

 

Successful SP treatment can lead to a greater sense of openness, calm and the increased sense of one's own agency and capacity to be present, as well as to connect and create lasting, loving, close relationships.  

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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is considered a cutting edge treatment 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 patterns caused by traumatic experience. It can reduce the negative beliefs we may carry about ourselves and the feelings of guilt and shame and overwhelm and frustration that so often accompany untreated trauma and attachment injuries.  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) developed by the pioneering researcher/therapist Janina Fisher to specifically offer genuine and effective support for individuals to reduce chronic symptoms of childhood trauma that are the body's way of surviving abuse and/or neglect. TIST treatment has been used for over two decades to unlock healing pathways that can allow individuals who may have tried therapy for years without much progress to finally gain needed information, perspectives and powerful tools for managing dissociation, including structural dissociation and disorganized attachment, leading to more stable, engaged, balanced and purposeful, creative lives. 

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Dialectical Behavioral Therapies (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, high-risk behavior, anxiety and depression. I do NOT offer full fidelity DBT treatment. Instead, I am trained in DBT skills onboarding for those who wish to work with a somatic-based counselor while continuing to use and strengthen and continue practicing their DBT skills use for emotional regulation and distress tolerances. 

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