Anxiety: How does your anxiety speak? What's the threat? Where do you notice tension in your body or do you perhaps feel disconnected from your body? We'll develop intentional awareness skills, getting in touch with your nervous system and applying somatic exercises, parts work and mindful, evidence based techniques to investigate thoughts, beliefs, feelings, sensations and urges. We can build on a sense of safety, and take a closer look at what you might be experiencing while also finding relief.

Addiction: People wouldn't enter recovery if change weren’t possible. I find it validating to explore not just why the addiction but why the pain. How do substances serve you? What do they do for you that you can't seem to do for yourself? What do you feel like you need to do but might not want to? My approach is personalized based on client needs, whether harm reduction or complete sobriety. I draw from a variety of coping skills and resources, emphasizing mindfulness and what's underneath one's addiction to find the unmet needs and navigate cravings.

Trauma and PTSD: How do you know when you feel safe, seen or heard? I don’t need to know what happened but I do want to know the conditions that would allow for you to share your story. I utilize mindfulness, parts work and somatic-based interventions to help regulate the nervous system and expand client’s window of tolerance. While emphasizing co-regulation and moving at your pace, we’ll explore what feels unacceptable, become in tune with your mind-body connection, and investigate old patterns that you might be stuck in that no longer serve you. There is wisdom to gain when we listen to our pain through the lens of love and curiosity, allowing old coping mechanisms and beliefs to step back, and connection to grow.