What makes me different
I've been through the medical merry-go-round enough times to know there's nothing more powerful than the innate healing ability we all possess. But I had to learn how to use mine without pushing myself into further overwhelm, and that lesson changed everything about how I practice.
My traditional training as a psychotherapist barely touched the profound connection between mind and body. So I kept studying: somatic therapies, the biology of trauma, the science of how life experiences get stored in the body, until I could gently address the deeper causes of nervous system dysregulation rather than managing its symptoms.
What I believe most is that when we set out to heal, we tend to outsource our power to others. My aim is the opposite. I guide people back to rebuilding safety and connection within themselves, so they can stop handing their healing away and learn to trust the wisdom of their own unique physiology.
I'm truly passionate about this work, and honored every time someone invites me along for their recovery.
Training
I like to keep things simple to understand, but everything I share is built on years of advanced training in the body's side of healing.
Dr. Peter Levine's approach to releasing traumatic shock, built on 50+ years of stress physiology, neuroscience, and clinical practice. It offers a framework for finding where a person is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, and tools to resolve those fixed physiological states.
A multi-year mentorship with Dr. Aimie Apigian, a leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body, and how to restore it through every aspect of health.
A psychosensory method designed to de-traumatize memory and remove its negative effects from both psyche and body.
Dr. Stephen Porges's evolutionary, neuropsychological understanding of the vagus nerve's role in emotion regulation, social connection, and the fear response.
Richard Schwartz's parts-work model: identifying the sub-personalities within each of us, often in conflict with each other and with the confident, compassionate Self at our core.
A body-based inner-listening process from Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin: turning toward emotions, sensations, and inner conflict with curiosity instead of trying to fix or override them.
Kathy Kain's advanced training on the relationship between the body and feelings, before trauma ever enters the picture.
Training with Mark Wolynn, author of It Didn't Start With You, on breaking inherited patterns of suffering, how the traumas of parents and grandparents can live in our unexplained anxiety, fears, and physical symptoms.
An advanced year-long training with Brendan Vermeire, a leading mental and metabolic health scientist researching functional and integrative medicine.
Traditional foundations
Alongside the somatic work, I'm trained in the traditional modalities of psychotherapy.
The heart of it
Your healing doesn't live in someone else's hands. My job is to help you build the safety and connection within yourself, until you trust the wisdom of your own physiology.
Where to begin
Free
7 minutes to learn what kind of support your nervous system needs.
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The foundation course: your biology, your stress responses, and the skills of regulation, in order, in depth.
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Close, individual work, tracking your nervous system together and building the support your body has been missing.
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