YOUR JOURNEY TOWARD WHOLENESS
Therapeutic Approach
My approach is grounded in a simple belief: healing isn't only something we think our way through. It's something we feel our way through. Our bodies hold onto our stories, and healing asks to be a full bodied, felt experience, not just a cognitive one.
As a trauma and somatic therapist, my work goes beyond traditional talk therapy. I invite the body, the nervous system, and the different parts of you into the process of healing. I draw on somatic approaches like Sensorimotor Psychotherapy alongside Internal Family Systems, helping clients tune into the subtle cues of their body as a source of insight and change.
Rather than staying on the surface, I gently guide clients toward the roots of what they're struggling with. Often these roots live in early attachment wounds, held in the body as implicit memory long after the events themselves have passed. In this way, therapy becomes more than conversation. It becomes a space for embodied healing.
Underneath all of this is a trust in the nervous system's own capacity to integrate what once felt like too much. That capacity is what makes deep, lasting change possible.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a somatic therapeutic approach to healing trauma. It recognizes that our bodies hold onto experiences, sometimes long after our minds have moved on, and that healing often needs to happen on a physical level, not just a mental one. In sessions, we might notice sensations, postures, or impulses in the body, and gently explore what they have to tell us. This isn't about reliving painful events, it is about helping your nervous system find new ways to respond, metabolize trauma, and return to homeostasis. Over time, this can lead to a deeper sense of safety and ease in your own body.
Internal Family Systems
How Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Works: The wisdom of the body is a source of primary intelligence, intention, information, and change. Sensations, postures, gestures, and movements reveal an innate knowledge that goes beyond cognitive understanding. Instead of reliving the trauma or focusing solely on the narrative, healing in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy happens by tracking these subtle bodily cues and allowing incomplete survival responses (like fight, flight, or freeze) to be safely recognized and, when appropriate, completed. This process helps reestablish a sense of agency, an internal felt sense of safety, and regulation in the nervous system.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment
TIST is an experiential trauma therapy developed by Dr. Janina Fisher. Rather than staying at the level of talking about the past, it invites you to notice what is happening in your body and your felt experience in the here and now. It works from the understanding that trauma often leaves people feeling fragmented, as if different parts of themselves are pulling in different directions, sometimes running the show without you realizing it. TIST focuses first on building safety and stability, helping you develop tools to manage overwhelming emotions and reactions before going deeper. This approach is especially supportive for people navigating complex trauma, dissociation, or times when life has felt like an ongoing crisis. Over time, the goal is to help you build a more compassionate internal relationship with your parts, so you feel more integrated and connected to yourself.
Attachment Theory
Attachment theory looks at how our earliest relationships shape the way we connect with others as adults. The patterns we learned as children, whether we felt safe and seen, or had to work hard to earn love and attention, often show up in our relationships today. Understanding these patterns can help explain why certain dynamics keep repeating, even when we want something different. In our sessions, we explore these early experiences with warmth and without judgment. The goal is to build a felt sense of safety, both within yourself and in your relationships with others.
EMDR
EMDR is a therapy approach that helps the brain process difficult or painful memories that feel stuck. Sometimes an experience from the past doesn't get fully processed, so it stays close to the surface, still triggering strong emotions or reactions in the present. EMDR uses guided eye movements or other forms of gentle stimulation to help the brain do what it does naturally during healthy processing. Many clients find that after EMDR, a memory that once felt overwhelming becomes something they can think about with more distance and ease. It is a well researched approach, especially for trauma and anxiety.
Ready to start your process?
Let's start with a simple 20-minute conversation. We'll talk about what's been happening, what you've tried, and whether this is a fit.
No pressure. No commitment. Just clarity.