Navigate life from a deep place of inner knowing

I offer a safe, non-judgmental space for you to make contact with what is present at this time in your life.

I believe that we each hold within a map of our own journey along with answers to our questions and inquiries. I view my role as therapist to be a mirror, reflecting back your wisdom. I use tools from body-centered psychotherapy, life coaching, meditation, and mindfulness to enhance self-awareness, self-compassion, forgiveness, and healing. These tools help build confidence and resilience as you begin to navigate your life from a place of deep inner knowing.

I am passionate about supporting people to live an embodied and authentic life. Many of us live with an undercurrent of self sabotaging thoughts and habitual behaviors, which keep us stuck. Learning to identify and unravel limiting beliefs allows for more flow in our lives, clarity about what is most important to us, and enhanced wellbeing.

“Therapy is first about discovering. It’s about who you are and about what your deepest emotional attitudes are. It’s not just about who you think you are. It’s not opinion. It’s not something you can know with the intellect. It’s about who you are in the very heart of yourself. That’s the flavor of psychotherapy, discovering yourself, discovering your real attitudes toward the most important pieces of your life.”

— Ron Kurtz, Hakomi Founder

Rising Rooted is a grounded, integrated approach to therapy which includes:

Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic Psychotherapy works with the connection of mind and body, using both psychotherapy and body-centered approaches for holistic healing. Many of us move in the world with a strong focus on the mind’s perception of our experiences. By limiting our experience to an intellectual lens on life a vast array of our experience of being human is missed. When we incorporate body awareness we attune to a more expansive experience of what it means to be alive. Somatic Psychotherapy uses tools to assist in grounding, creating boundaries, tuning into sensations in the body, visualization, and use of the breath to access areas of tension or numbness. When we view the challenges in our lives solely from our thinking minds, we often feel trapped in our own physical and emotional states. The beauty of somatic interventions is the ability to directly intervene in habitual patterns by developing new neural pathways and behaviors that provide alternative ways of responding to our environment.

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy

Hakomi is an experiential psychotherapy which helps bring greater awareness to our core conditioning. Memories, beliefs, emotional responses, and neural patterns shape our habits and behaviors and define us as individuals. For many of us, these forces are unconscious yet they drive how we intersect with major themes of life like safety, belonging, power, control, freedom, love, responsibility, appreciation, sexuality, and spirituality. Working with the tools and principles of the Hakomi method allows for change to occur deep within the psyche through greater awareness and embodiment.

Hakomi works with strong emotions and bound energy, safely releasing them and finding nourishment in that release. In addition, the Hakomi method works with the inner child, and other specific self states, often in the context of vividly re-experiencing memories and providing the “missing experience” for the child. The tools used in Hakomi help process core beliefs in mindfulness, not as intellectual problem-solving, but as direct dialogue with the unconscious. Our bodies store memories and hold patterns making our response to life’s events predictable and limited. By closing down to certain emotions that arise or reacting in habitual ways to how we meet the world, our options become more fixed and less fluid. By deepening our awareness of these habits, we can begin to build new neural pathways and an expanded capacity for meeting our lives.

Hakomi is based on 5 principles.
The Dynamic Use of Mindfulness: By slowing down and paying attention to what is happening internally, we are able to notice and name the contents of consciousness.
Nonviolence: Change happens when our defenses are supported and understood. In the Hakomi method we are not trying to break down defenses, but rather honor them for the ways they have offered support.
Organicity: In the Hakomi Method, the therapist’s job is to offer optimal growing conditions that support and nourish organic growth and unfolding.
Mind-Body Integration: The information we can get from the mind is valuable, and often more directly accessible, in the body.
Unity: Therapist and client are in a mutual unfolding. The therapist is not the expert so much as the facilitator, and a fellow traveler on the journey.

For more information, visit: www.hakomiinstitute.com.

Wayfinder Life Coach Tools

Wayfinder Life Coach techniques offer fun, innovative, and creative ways to work with your Soul’s deepest longing and desire. With the tools in hand, you will learn to navigate through life from your own inner compass. By challenging long held belief systems and re-envisioning the life you desire, patterned ways of being in life begin to change allowing magic to unfold.

Compassionate Inquiry®

Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Gabor Maté for working with addiction and trauma. The stepping stones of Compassionate Inquiry® shed light on the origins of the unconscious dynamics that run our lives. With increased awareness and compassion of the unconscious patterns, the possibility for liberation emerges.

For more information, visit: https://compassionateinquiry.com.