You Can Feel Good Inside Yourself.
You Can Live the Life that your Deepest Self Yearns to Live.
Real change comes when we access deeper levels of our mind/body/spirit. Neuroscience has recently begun to study what Buddhist practitioners have known for thousands of years: Mindfulness enables us to fundamentally change how we engage our lives. My psychotherapy work builds from this possibility.
I offer:
- Individual psychotherapy for adults, teens, and children
- Couples and Family Therapy
- Group work for adults and teens
- Wilderness group journeys
- Consultation for organizations and schools
- Trainings for agencies
- Supervision for MFT interns
I work with:
- Relationship difficulties
- Life transitions
- Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Anxiety problems
- Addictions
- General feelings of isolation, depression, or withdrawal from life
- Blocks in creativity
- Spiritual and existential crises
- Interest in personal growth/ self-discovery
Modalities I utilize:
- Integrative Psychotherapy
(Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist [#MFC35526])
- The Hakomi Method of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
- The Somatic Experiencing Method developed by Peter Levine
(20 years experience with Vipassana Meditation/Mindfulness)
- Internal Attunement Resourcing
(my own method integrating mindfulness, somatic resourcing, and interactive guided imagery)
What is Mindfulness and How Does it Support Psychotherapy?
"Mindfulness" describes a quality of awareness of one's real experience. We are "mindful" when we are very present with something that is happening, in a way that has less judgment and expectation, and with a much greater connection to bodily sensations and experience. In The Mindful Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Siegel writes, “Mindful awareness is a form of experience that seems to promote neural plasticity.” Mindfulness builds bridges between different parts of the brain, allowing for change in deeply held emotional patterns. Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Attunement Resourcing are methods that utilize Mindfulness to support fundamental change in how we experience life.
Mindfulness and the Embodied Self
Embodied Mindfulness allows us to drop more into our natural, Embodied Self.
It is here
that we find our direction, our calling, and our deepest sense of
purpose. When we live in our Embodied Self, we relate to others more
authentically. Our relationships become more meaningful and satisfying. We feel like we are living the lives we were meant to live.
Bringing It All Together
My
psychotherapy work brings together time-honored practices of
Mindfulness with cutting-edge therapeutic approaches to engaging core
belief systems, developing inner resources, and resolving trauma. I
work differently with each person, because each person is different.
But with each person, couple, family, or group, I seek to honor the
unique truth, vision, and voice that is waiting to emerge; the dream
that wants to find itself truly embodied, awake and alive.
