Contemplative Psychotherapy Somatic Coaching Parts Integration & Grief Counseling
Somatic Coaching
In sessions I direct clients experientially in tracking body sensation, the movement of emotion, thoughts, breath & posture to attune to & integrate what is needing attention. At the same time, there is the potential to release blockages & an opportunity to reset the nervous system. Assignments between sessions are key for clients to increase mindfulness of how their body responds to their world.
Contemplative Psychotherapy
My style of psychotherapy emphasizes the mind-body relationship, integrating mindfulness practice & working to interrupt problematic patterns in the mind, body & emotions. We’ll work with the parts of you that are struggling with anxiety/panic, boundaries & limiting beliefs. Awareness in the present moment provides the essential framework for curiosity & gentleness in the process of healing & change.
Parts Integration
I first learned “parts work” through my study with a Shamanic Journey-work guide via Soul Parts Retrieval & added the IFS (Internal Family Systems) teachings to that foundation. This modality is powerful & helps cultivate self-compassion as well as a real sense of wholeness & congruence. I always say…the goal is to have “all parts moving in the same direction” IS integration!
Grief Counseling
I offer Grief Counseling as a way to make clear the need to mindfully feel all the feelings & resistances that can arise when there is a loss. I particularly focus on complicated grief & disenfranchised grief.
It’s essential to work with intentional memorializing & active grieving to integrate a loss as well as addressing complications & trauma associated with a death or an event that has created grief.
Individual Consultation
Highly-Sensitive People are often drawn to healing & helping professions as well as the arts & have great skill to support others in their lives. I enjoy helping HSP professionals to set boundaries for themselves, achieve their dreams & build a toolkit for protecting their energy & time. Intake is not required for consultations.
"I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— RUMI