With warmth, presence, sincerity, and compassionate interest, I work to deeply listen and understand you: who you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to go. I see therapy as a process, a journey we walk together. Rather than trying to “fix” you, I see my role as helping you connect more deeply with your own inner wisdom and capacity to heal.
No matter what you’ve been through or how unbelievable or far away that innate capacity may seem, I have an abiding, wholehearted faith in both its existence in you, and in the therapeutic process that brings you into lasting connection with it.
In addition to your verbal/narrative story, I attend to your nonverbal - somatic or body - language with compassionate curiosity, and invite your attention to these aspects of your experience at a pace that feels right to you. Attending to mind/narrative/cognition and body this way goes deeper than “talk therapy” as it invites and integrates embodied awareness and understandings of unconscious patterns, and allows for authentic and nourishing patterns to emerge and solidify as we attend to your experience in this way.
In other words, my approach isn’t just about talking about healing and transformation. It’s helping you have an actual lived experience of it.
Because transformation happens when we finally have the relational safety to start to process what has had to stay sequestered away in isolation for so long, and experience new, supportive ways of being, relating, and knowing within ourselves.
And the powerful thing about experience is that you can’t un-have it.
Experience stays with you. Repeated experiences that you share with a trusted other transform you and stay with you for life.
My approach is grounded in relational models of therapy that incorporate cutting edge interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, somatic/body, and emotion research, rooted in depth, existential, experiential, and psychodynamic psychology fundamentals. Read on below to find out more about what working with me looks like.
Warm, Empathic, and Respectful
Warmth, empathy, and respect for the unique individual you are are inherent to my way of being with you. They’re also crucial to help you feel safe in our work and to support your exploration, healing, and growth. I welcome all parts of you ready to heal into our relationship with warmth, empathy, and respect.
Authentic and Human
I believe in a therapy that doesn’t hide behind smoke and mirrors or performance. While I have robust professional training, education, and expertise in supporting people’s access to their own innate healing capacities, I also show up like a real human being to do this work. I am a heartfelt person who is transparent about what I’m doing and why in our work when requested or needed, and I fully engage in the process of making repairs with you when I make mistakes and miss the mark.
Mindful, Curious, and Experiential
I want to know who you are, as deeply as you feel ready to be known. Your verbal story is important to me, as well as slowing down with curiosity about what is alive for you in your moment-to-moment experience with me. In doing so, we create space to deeply understand your true needs, strengthen your internal connection to your self, and discover and integrate authentic ways of relating to your self and others.
Emotion and Body/Somatic Focused
Our bodies carry the unprocessed, and unconscious, emotions and memories of our early, developmental experiences, as well as all of the experiences throughout our lives. At a pace that feels right to you, I invite your attention to what is happening in your internal, bodily experience. Inviting attention to your emotions and bodily sensations this way, particularly in the context of a relationship in which you feel emotionally safe, is the foundation of mental and emotional health, healing, and well-being.
Sincere, Dedicated, Engaged, and Reliable
While the journey of transformation can feel mysterious and challenging in its gradual, emerging nature, one thing I always want you to feel and know is my presence with you, all along the way. I personally know the profound vulnerability of being a client in therapy, and I intentionally hold a small group of clients in my practice so that I can show up as fully as possible with each person I have the honor of coming to know and accompany on their journey.
When someone deeply listens to you
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
- John Fox