Hello and welcome! It is my goal to provide therapeutic services that will help enhance your life to its full potential and to provide you support while you work towards living a more conscious life. I am dedicated to assisting you in regaining a balanced sense of self and reclaiming your personal power. My treatment approach focuses on the influence of the mind and body on one's spirit and overall way of being in the world. I bring a great deal of empathy and openness to sessions and I have a strong admiration for those who choose to challenge and heal long lived “mistaken beliefs” about themselves which dictate how we walk through life and ultimately the experiences we attract.
You will receive both physical and emotional support to help overcome issues related to relationships, health problems, depression/mood issues, anxiety, body image and awareness, stress management, grief and loss, and emotional or physical trauma. If you choose you will experience the benefits of a holistic existential approach with the option of building a treatment team to meet your needs. I have relationships with several healing professionals (including shamanic practitioners, acupuncturists, naturopaths, and psychiatrists) and am happy to collaborate with them as needed in order to support you.
I specialize in Somatic Transformation, a relational model using empathic attunement and natural wisdom for the healing of trauma held in the body. Everyone holds trauma in their body as a result of the lived experience. There are variations of course, however all trauma has the ability to affect ones emotional state, ability to regulate emotions, and to develop and/or maintain strong intimate relationships. Everyone's body also holds the wisdom needed to heal the trauma which can begin to emerge within the interpersonal relationship. Using empathic attunement this model gently explores
the trauma held in the body which in turn reveals and allows access to the body's healing wisdom. Oscillating between the two realms of experience by exploring sensations in the body, movement, emotions, and imagination allows for new connections to develop and for restored health to the autonomic nervous system. Archetypes and other elements of the right brain hemisphere are brought into awareness and are amplified so that new patterns are formed in the mind, body, and spirit. New meaning in ones life begins to emerge as these new connections are formed within the nervous system. These new formations begin to integrate within the brain stem, limbic system, and cerbral cortex which restores the autonomic nervous system and intense emotions allowing for more meaningful intimate relationships and experiences in the world.
Somatic Transformation was developed by Sharon Stanley, Ph.D. The model is inspired by phenomenology, indigenous healing practices, research of Interpersonal Neurobiology, trauma research, practices of mindfulness, and the Regulation Theory of Dr. Allan Schore.
Psychoanalysis is not the search for the hidden truth about the patient and the patient’s life. It is instead the emergence, through curiosity and the acceptance of uncertainty of constructions which may have never been thought before.” -Stern
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