Services

Specializations

I work with adults of all ages and backgrounds, and many of my clients come from the legal, medical, caregiving, and creative professions.

I welcome diversity in all its forms, including body size, abilities, race, sexuality, gender identity, and religion.

Details

In addition to traditional talk therapy, my practice is informed by the following modalities.

EMDR

EMDR (short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy modality that helps people heal from the emotional distress and symptoms that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.

EMDR integrates elements of many effective psychotherapies in a structured protocol that is designed to maximize treatment effects. This includes psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies.

EMDR is recommended as an effective treatment for trauma by many international health and governmental agencies including the World Health Organization. EMDR is also used to relieve other conditions such as: anxiety, panic attacks, depression, performance anxiety, phobias, and complicated grief.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a body-centered talk therapy designed to address cognitive, emotional, and physical symptoms of trauma and developmental issues. These issues are often connected to symptoms of anxiety, depression, or difficulties in relationships. SP aims to help a client feel a sense of safety in their body when faced with reminders of past painful experiences.   As a holistic approach , SP draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method.

SP enables clients to discover and change habitual physical and psychological patterns that impede optimal functioning and well-being. SP is helpful in working with dysregulated nervous system activation (such as feeling overwhelmed, panicked or checked out) and other effects of trauma, as well as the limiting belief systems of developmental issues (for example, “I’m not good enough”, “I can’t depend on anyone,” “My needs are not important”).

Sensorimotor therapy emphasizes mindfulness and awareness of the connection between the client’s mind and body. SP helps clients cultivate their strengths, while providing enough challenge to stimulate growth, long lasting change, and well-being.

The Hakomi Method

The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy combines mindful body awareness with experiential techniques to promote psychological growth and transformation.

Hakomi  considers the body to be a window to unconscious psychological material. The therapist helps clients identify body/somatic indicators of unconscious beliefs and then bring these indicators into awareness, thus supporting the process of change. 

PACT - Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy®

PACT was developed out of cutting-edge research in three areas:

• Neuroscience: how the brain works for or against us when in a relationship

• Attachment theory: experiences in early relationships create a blueprint that informs the sense of safety and security we bring to adult relationships.

• Arousal regulation: the way the human mind and body respond to and manage moods and emotions—both our own and our partner's—such as stress, anger, or affection.

Working with a PACT therapist, you and your partner can discover how to:

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