Welcome
Practice becoming
When our experience of pain exceeds our capacity to handle that pain, it is through meaningful connection with another that healing occurs.
My Services
Individuals
We all contain multitudes, to paraphrase Walt Whitman. That is, there is no one, true self. We are all made of many "selves." Culture, context, and relationship all inform who we are at any given time. We all have different experiences of self, and others have different experiences of our "selves." In fact, the self is a moment to moment process of emergence. There is, however, what you might call a "preferred self," the self whose story you are most interested in exploring and nurturing. My aim is to support your preferred experience of self, and help you in living out narratives that support the development and emergence of that preferred self.
Couples
Many couples find themselves stuck in the same loops of blame and accusation, and unable to negotiate difference My goal is to help couples move away from ideas "right" and "wrong" and toward greater ability to pay attention to one another’s unique experiences, making the relationship itself the site of growth.
Haptic Trauma Therapy™
Haptic Trauma Therapy (HTT) is a body-based, trauma-informed intervention, grounded in neuroscience and mindfulness, which uses clay and a potter's wheel to reactivate the circuits in the brain responsible for pleasure and reward; create new neural pathways.
ABOUT ME
My areas of specialization are trauma and relationship issues.
I’ve dedicated myself to working with compassion, humor, and an unwillingness to conform to dominant ideas of what healing is “supposed” to look like. Whether you have experienced trauma as a child or an adult, if you’re in a difficult relationship, or anxiety has you overpowered more often than you’d like, I’m here to help you move toward a preferred way of being. Through talk, EMDR therapy, mindfulness, and maybe even using some clay at the potter’s wheel, let’s work through things together.
QUESTIONS?
Sometimes picking up the phone or dropping an email is the hardest part. Let’s chat for a few minutes and see if you feel like we might be able to work through things together.
Freedom is what you do
with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre