It’s time for a new experience.
Integrating attachment theory, somatic practices, and the neuroscience of emotion
Our work together might most simply be defined as gently approaching suffering with presence and a willingness to feel. Since the day of your birth your emotions have been experienced within the nervous system that runs throughout your body. We need only to slow down and get curious about what’s arising physically and emotionally when revisiting painful experiences in order to repair neural pathways responding to old wounds. Much of the suffering we navigate as adults connects back to early experiences we faced as children. My work at its core aims to repair the pain of unmet attachment needs through addressing the past via inner and outer resources from the present.
Therapy can put you in touch with vulnerable emotions, and the process may exacerbate pain before things start to feel better. My commitment to authentic communication and a steady openness to your feedback serve to sustain and fortify the foundation of our work together. I know you want to heal, and together we can get there.
What happens in a session?
My work has been described as lively, dynamic, insightful and engaging. Some of what we may explore includes somatic awareness, unconscious emotions, mindfulness practices, deep imagination or spontaneous imagery, "parts" of the self, connection to nature or source, and story/personal myth. We may use these tools to work through in-the-moment distress or to identify threads of inner wisdom and creative redress. One of my colleagues says, “the obstacle is the way”, and I find this outlook can provide a sense of rightness even while navigating life’s most painful challenges.
My clinical style is primarily influenced by experiential modalities such as Hakomi, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and AEDP, an integrative, attachment-focused model that utilizes somatic awareness and the experience of affective (emotional) healing. AEDP is the primary lens through which my current work is focused.
Feeling ready? Contact me.
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
— Wendell Berry
