Core Practices:

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

• Attachment/Relational Psychotherapy

• Grief and Loss Therapy

• Mindful Awareness

My goal is to help clients grow from surviving to thriving, by guiding them as they explore and befriend their own inner worlds. Discovering the intricate connections between the mind, body, and emotions encourages mindful awareness of all that happens in each person’s internal personality system.

Clients often turn to therapy out of a need to be found, to be deeply seen, heard, and felt by someone who truly "gets" them. We want to weave bewildering, contradictory, or hidden stands of experience into a cohesive story that makes sense. When we create a coherent narrative - and share it with another - we feel a deeper sense of safety in the world.

I address these needs by helping to heal the client's Attachment System, the hardwiring in the brain and body that compels newborns to reach out for connection to the caregivers on whom their survival depends. How those caregivers respond determines how our brains develop, as well as how we see ourselves and our place in the world. When attachment relationships go awry, parts of us can be deeply traumatized. Those wounded parts can be hidden away by other, protective parts that create powerful survival strategies - heroic efforts to prevent the harm from ever happening again. Clients may seek therapy when those once-protective beliefs or ways of behaving no longer serve them in their adult lives.