No two therapeutic arcs are the same. I take an active, experiential approach that connects mind and body, rooted entirely in human connection.

A Relational Approach First

Above all else, I am a relational therapist. My relational philosophy is rooted in the understanding that our personality, behaviors, and ways of organizing our sense of self and the world occurs through our relationships - especially our formative ones. We carry the blueprints of those connections within us. Together, we will work toward building a sense of trust, using real-time dynamics to discover, attend to, and transform your relationship to yourself and others. Modalities and techniques are secondary to this shared human container. They are simply tools to serve your healing.

Themes & Challenges We Can Explore

I walk alongside clients navigating complex, deep-seated challenges. Together, we can work on:

·       Relationship Dynamics: Transforming how you relate to others and to yourself—including romantic/life partners, friends, co-workers, community members and family.

·       Trauma & Attachment Wounds: Tending to family of origin pain, working with early memory, developmental trauma, and healing from toxic shame.

·       Creative Revitalization: Rediscovering and renewing dynamic connections to your creativity, and unblocking parts of the self that hold this energy.

·       Body & Mind Connection: Navigating dissociation, reestablishing connections between body, emotions, and mind, and finding physical safety in your body after trauma.

·       Identity and “isms”: Working through real-world or internalized “isms” (antisemitism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia) in order to fortify your identity, working through grief so you may stand firmly as who you are.  

·       Patterns & Recovery: Disentangling loops of codependency, and alcohol or substance abuse.

·       Mood & Regulation: Working through depression, panic, and anxiety, and finding your footing during major life transitions.

Modalities I Integrate

Depending on your unique strengths and needs, we may weave these experiential tools into our relational work:

·       Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Somatics:

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy works directly with the body in tandem with emotions, thoughts, and memory to process trauma, as well as to uncover the moments when early wounding occurred. By working this way, we are able to intervene and provide new experiences “at the moment” when the original wounding took place. This helps to re-wire formative belief systems, shifting patterns at a nervous system level. We may also work with patterns of movement to explore how meaning making occurs through the body, and how meaning can be remade by shifting these patterns. I am a level 2 trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapy practitioner.

I also work with a deeply informed template of the yoga tradition (20 years of teaching) that works with layers of embodiment, from physical to the energetic body.  

·       The Creative Lens (Drama Therapy and Role Theory) :

Role Theory allows us to view ourselves as a composite of roles or “parts” we have inherited or chosen. We “play out” these roles through our behaviors, self-perception, and relationships; comprehending the world through this lens. By re-orienting our relationship to these roles, invoking a new role, or retiring a role, we can practice new ways of perceiving, relating, and being. Drama therapy uses theater processes to make our work experiential. We weave metaphor, symbols, and narrative to shift perspectives, alter story-lines, and understand the language of our unconscious to transform our experiences.

·       The Root - Looking Beneath the Surface (Psychodynamic/Depth):

Exploring how unresolved issues or unconscious feelings from your past might be actively driving your current mood, behaviors, and relationship patterns.