Modalities

Somatic Experiencing

  • A body-based, bottom-up modality designed to “complete” incomplete trauma responses and integrate traumatic experiences. Also supportive for folks seeking to develop a deeper relationship with and awareness of their whole self, including their body. Many people seek somatic therapy after years of good work doing “talk” therapy to support integration of the felt-sense of our past, not just the mental understanding of it. This modality is supportive for all forms of trauma. Find out more at the Somatic Experiencing Website.

Ecotherapy

  • Ecotherapy acknowledges and values connection with nature (and recognition of ourselves as nature) as fundamental to our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. This often includes intimate contact with the natural world, including landscapes and animals. This modality informs all of my work, both in person and virtual. However, you can work with me in person at the group practice farm I work at, the Center at Heron Hill.

Attachment Therapy

  • Explores how early relationships with caregivers and family dynamics have impacted the way you connect and communicate with others in adulthood. This kind of therapy supports development of more sustainable, informed, and secure relationships. We’ll be curious about all levels of attachment - to yourself, to others, to your community, to the land, and to the world.

Grief Work

  • Grief is one of the most profound, beautiful, painful, and transformative experiences in all of life. At one point or another, we all grieve something we’ve lost or never had. Grief Work holds a reflective container to ritualize, emotionally process, and alchemize the power of this kind of pain. We’ll use story telling, creative interventions, ritual, and somatic practice to support the lifelong process of grieving. Hear some of my shared beliefs on grieving by writer, artist, and speaker Dr. Martín Prechtel.

Mindfulness + Meditation

  • The foundation of all of my therapeutic work is building awareness of body, mind, heart, and spirit through mindfulness practices of honored healing traditions, such as Buddhism. The immediacy of the present moment is where all integration happens. There is no need for you to have practice or even interest in the spiritual components of meditation - mindfulness will inevitably be part of our work together.

Compassion Focused Therapy

  • Compassion focused work aligns with mindfulness and meditative practices and foundational principles of Buddhism. I believe that healing and integration is stymied by lack of self compassion, and development of this skill is crucial. You’ll learn take-home skills for self kindness and receive plenty of resources for reading and listening. We’ll practice self compassion often in session. Read more about self compassion from researcher Dr. Kristen Neff.

These modalities are used alongside the principles of others such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectal Behavioral Therapy, Parts Work, and Jungian Dream Analysis.

All of the modalities I use may be intuitively blended and woven together to support your unique process.

Somatic Touch Work

  • Explores how early relationships with caregivers and family dynamics have impacted the way you connect and communicate with others in adulthood. This kind of therapy supports development of more sustainable, informed, and secure relationships. We’ll be curious about all levels of attachment - to yourself, to others, to your community, to the land, and to the world.