I am passionate about my work as a Psychotherapist. Over the last 18 years I have come to appreciate that our difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviors are indicators that something is asking for our attention. The same way that physical discomfort and pain point to something that needs care. I also have seen how easy it is to blame and criticize ourselves for these very things that are connected to our deepest vulnerabilities, pain and longings.
I hold and work from an integrated holistic. approach to health and healing. I listen and give attention to your body, soul, mind and spirit.
BODY –
• Heal from dissociation and trauma through sensory awareness, breath, movement, cranial sacral bodywork
• Reclaim instinct, natural impulses, playful child, passion
• Experience belonging in your body and upon this earth
SOUL –
• Work through painful relationship patterns and family legacies
• Release authentic self from patterns of self-doubt, depression and mistrust
• Find the gifts hidden in the wound through dreams, archetypal images, living myths
MIND –
• Strengthen capacity for meaningful relationships and work
• Cultivate clarity of awareness and choice
• Offer your gifts in ways that serve you and others
SPIRIT –
• Free mental blocks to inner guidance
• Integrate meditation, imagination, and ceremony into your life
• See your inner nature mirrored in outer nature
*Adapted from The Four Shields of Human Nature, by Steven Foster and Meredith Little.
A safe, respectful space is created in our work together crafted to your individual needs. I provide a compassionate interactive presence and a strong belief in your innate healing capacity and help you learn to access and trust your strengths, wisdom and inner guidance. I am trained in depth psychotherapy, dream work, sand tray and art therapy. I also have training in EFTA which uses acupressure points to release emotions and old patterns of living and Visionary Crainosacral therapy.
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle form of bodywork that employs light touch with very deep listening and sensing. Of the many different varieties of craniosacral therapies, I am certified in Visionary Cranial Sacral therapy, a purely non-manipulative approach that trusts in the ‘Breath of Life’ as the true agent of healing.
Cranial Sacral therapy is appropriate if you wish to:
• Relax/settle an over-active nervous system
• Heal from anxiety and trauma
• Re-unify a mind-body split
• Deepen a bodily felt sense awareness
• Increase coherence between body, psyche, and spirit
• Experience your bodily connection with Nature and Source
I offer purely Visionary cranial sessions, as well as a blended approach held within the context of psychotherapy, which might involve some verbal exchange on the table. In either case, clients are always fully clothed.
It has been my privilege to work with adult men and women, children, teens and families and support them in a caring, nonjudgmental way as they learn to listen to the symptoms which cause them suffering and concern. As they find ways to be in touch and express the stories around their pain and problems they are able to clear out old patterns of beliefs. emotions and behaviors as they open up to new possibilities of living and relating.