MY APPROACH

 

I work with individuals and couples using a collaborative style, informed by various approaches. For one, as a necessary but not sufficient starting point, I know it is important that you feel both comfortable and safe, to discover some hope in early sessions and to believe you are in competent hands. This is accomplished through getting to know my style, connecting in early sessions, sharing yourself and getting input, asking questions, and giving feedback.

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I value the starting point that talk therapy offers. Understanding your relationships, your life struggles, your stress, your role challenges (work, family, partnerships), your trauma and attachment history and the forces that have shaped you is crucial as a first step in expanding your narrative and setting the table for growth. But deeper healing and self-connection occurs more powerfully in our emotions, feelings, and energy systems. So I model, teach, and encourage work in these arenas – somatic (body-based) awareness, mindfulness practice, guidance in internal family systems work (IFS) and use of guided imagery to explore inner landscapes, and hypnosis for deeper dives into self-knowing, ​

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I bring intelligence, humor, and curiosity to our relationship. In addition to being an attentive listener, I am direct, and often offer feedback, input and guidance. This is always in the context of assuming you have the healing capacity and wisdom you need within. One of my crucial roles in partnering with you is to help you free up, discover and grow these inner intelligences and intuitions that have been quieted, forgotten, or neglected. I revere therapy as a unique and sometimes magical place where you are allowed to drop away from habitual patterns of the everyday to peer at yourself anew – to regain or even claim for the first time a sense of connection and knowing. 

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• IFS (Internal Family Systems) LEVEL 1 trained

• MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) trained

• Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 & 2 (CCTP/CCTP-II)

• Somatic Trauma Healing Certification

• Currently in training to become a Licensed Clinical Facilitator for Psilocybin Assisted Therapy