What can you expect?
Essentially, my practice is :
Person-centered – meaning I believe that you are the expert of your experience. As such, my rôle is to meet you where you are, and to accompany you with warmth and acceptance, together exploring practices that might support you in becoming your own therapist.
A somatic approach – focusing on the lived experience of the body-mind and cultivating curiosity towards any of the physical, sensory-motor, emotional, social, psychological, and/or spiritual aspects of our being in the world, including how they interact within and around us.
Resource-oriented – recognizing and building internal and external resources to support you in meeting life's challenges.
Arts-based – as there may be times when non-verbal expression is more accessible than verbalization. The arts can also support us in externalizing an experience or an event, giving us the opportunity to frame and even reframe the meaning we attribute to it, and then (re)integrate it for ourselves in a new way. You may choose to engage in movement, writing, drawing, photography, or voice. It is not necessary to have any previous experience.
Trauma-informed – I have studied the neurophysiological impact of trauma and somatic approaches to trauma recovery, including internal family systems, focusing, and active imagination.