My specialties are:
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Trauma (including Complex PTSD)
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Grief
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Healthy Boundaries
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Attachment Wounds & Communication
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Life transitions
My approach is holistic, welcoming all aspects of who you are.
My main modality is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. My work is informed and enriched by more than 30 years of practicing and teaching meditation, by Aikido and other movement disciplines, and by my deep appreciation and respect for the body-mind connection - and how harnessing its power fosters healing, resourcefulness, resilience, and skill in daily life.
I provide support with:
Transforming traumatization
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Traumatic experiences bring us face to face with existential and spiritual questions and can have devastating effects. In the safe space of our sessions, you can process and integrate these experiences. We strengthen internal resources, harness the innate intelligence of the body, and restore protective impulses that may have been interrupted. This leads to greater strength, empowerment, and freedom, so you can move forward newly, in whole and healthy ways.
Discovering the body's wisdom
Body sensations, impulses, posture and ways of moving are all gateways to deeper knowing. Opening and listening to them is rewarding and empowering, opening doors to news ways of moving through life.
Living life well
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Life's challenges - big and small transitions, illness, losses, traumatic experiences, difficulties in relationships and other hardships - can become gateways for an ever fuller and meaningful life. Whatever arises, we engage it. Bringing circumstances to the path of life, we can cry when it's time for tears, smile when it's time to smile, laugh in moments of joy, and love, create, and contribute in many different ways.
Healing relational wounds and creating healthy relationships
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Relational wounds cut deep. Not being heard or seen fully, getting hurt when we are most vulnerable - such experiences may impair the joy, freedom, and love that are possible. Can we be real, honest and open with ourselves and others? How do we communicate when things get rough? Relationships thrive on a continuum between differentiation and connection. Mindfully, we help wounds heal, create pathways for healthy connections, allow different parts of yourself to integrate, and find new ways for you to be in relation that serve you and those around you well.
Using pain as stepping stones
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Hard-to-have emotions always contain wisdom. Hidden within sadness and grief may be appreciation, gratitude, love, treasuring life. Anger and rage can disguise clarity, strength, power, truth, motivation, integrity, or a cry for justice. Managing the intensity of these emotions and expressing them in healthy ways is challenging. And sometimes, they get muddled up. Together, without forcing anything, we set out to reveal their resources and gifts.
Therapy is Alchemy
If this speaks to you, let's connect!
