Services
- Individual
- Group
About My Clients
Do your sensitivities to the world and relationships sometimes feel like more of a burden than a blessing? Are you dealing with chronic pain or health challenges? Struggling to find a sense of fulfillment and purpose? Consumed with anxiety over the state of our world? Perhaps you want to explore parts of yourself that have previously been held silent by other anxieties or conditioning. My clients tend to be highly motivated, curious, and creative.
My Background and Approach
My therapeutic style is integrative and humanistic. I utilize such techniques as Mindfulness & Somatic based practices, Energetics, Parts work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to frame my interventions and support style. I have been studying psychology and complementary and alternative approaches to health since 2010. My questions about the body and its ability to suffer - and to heal from that suffering - led to three years of study at Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts in a variety of supportive physical modalities. My curiosity about the relationship between body, mind, and spirit led to a Masters in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology from Bastyr University of Natural Health in Kenmore, WA in 2015. My desire to know about the metaphysical, energetic, and spiritual aspects of healing earned me a certification in Syntara System School of Energy Awareness in December, 2020 after two years of study.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that people are, at heart, trying their best and working towards connection. Our human needs are deep, intrinsic, and never to be shamed. It is the strategies we use - consciously or unconsciously - to get our needs met that can run us into challenges and dysfunction. The conditioning of our families, culture, trauma, and often toxic larger systems need to be unraveled and rewoven into a more useful, coherent, and adaptive set of patterns. The therapeutic process is not about fixing what is wrong with you, but brining you into greater relationship with yourself and life. “I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. And that my veins don’t end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, little things, landscape and bread, the poetry of everyone.” (excerpt from ‘Like You’ by Roque Dalton)