Psychotherapy sessions can combine…
Contemplative Psychotherapy Somatic Psychotherapy Parts Integration & Grief Counseling
THERAPY… YOUR WAY…
in your first session we’ll talk about your goals & intentions for therapy & what modalities & therapy approaches appeal to you.
In the meantime, feel free to “geek out” reading a bit about the modalities I offer…
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.
Somatic Psychotherapy
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 (including resetting sleep). Assignments between sessions are key to progress.
Parts Integration
I first learned “parts work” through my study with a Shamanic Journey-work guide via Soul Parts Retrieval. I added the IFS (Internal Family Systems) teachings to that foundation with a focus on parts-mapping. This modality is powerful & helps cultivate self-compassion as well as a real sense of wholeness & congruence. I always say…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.
Easy as 1, 2, 3…
If you would like to schedule Psychotherapy, feel free to schedule through the self-scheduler for a 50 minute intro session. I will send you a small amount of electronic paperwork to complete before the session. We can determine if we are a good fit to continue work together.
Sessions are via video online.
"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