why psychotherapy?

In order to thoroughly address trauma in a therapeutic setting I work with both talk-therapy and trauma informed therapies such as Somatic Experiencing, Heart Math Heart Brain Coherence, Polyvagal Informed and Internal Family Systems therapy.

Since the body, brain, and nervous system store traumatic experiences, healing from trauma requires attunement to your the somatic, cognitive, relational and emotional experiences.

I provide a safe non-judgmental space for you to reprocess, repattern, and re-story the trauma stored in your body-mind.

In addition Whole Mind-Body psychotherapy will teach you effective mind-body practices to befriend and care for your nervous system.

Now more than ever, our fast-paced lives are full of expectations, deadlines, constant input from social and news media, chronic stress from the overwhelming geo-political-health crises, can all trigger the stress response in our body-minds.

Anxiety and chronic stress have been shown to wear down our immune systems, hormonal systems and cognitive functions. Anxiety is a broad term and each individual’s experience with anxiety requires a tailored unique approach. Although anxiety can be an isolated symptom, more often anxiety is a result of living with chronic stress or experiencing a traumatic event/events, and can often coincide with depression and other mental challenges. I use a variety of approaches to understand the core triggers, expression, and scope of impact of an individual’s anxiety. Whole mind body psychotherapy is designed to address symptoms of chronic anxiety.

Similar to trauma, I believe both the brain and body experience and exhibit signs of depression that need to be recognized, reprocessed, and repatterned. Often times depression can be a result of trauma, loss, or relational/health challenges. I aim to help you understand and explore how your past and present life experiences weigh into your unique experience of depression.

Using Internal Family Systems and body-based therapies such as Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Informed therapy, I will work with you to identify the cognitive/emotional/behavioral patterns stored in your body-mind. Together, we will reprocess these patterns and create new neural pathways to sustain a sense of health and wellbeing.

Every person experiences grief and bereavement differently. It is so important to me that I make therapy a safe place to express everything that you are feeling.

I have no agenda, no timeline, and no pre-conceived notion of how your grief should be. I want to walk with you as you move through the grief and help you rebuild your sense of meaning and direction piece by piece.

I want you to know you are not alone and that I will join with you, at your pace, to help you understand your feelings and guide you towards self-compassion, insight, and integration.

I aim to provide the compassion and safety you need to open up about your loss, your feelings, with no expectations on where or how you “should” be at any point in time.