Waking Body and Mind
What if you lived your life on purpose
rather than at the whims of fear or reactivity to what’s happening around you? What if you could untangle your patterning and reveal your vitality that lies beneath?
As a guide and cheerleader on the path, I believe we need companionship to navigate the complexities of life and our own minds. I help people untangle themselves and follow the yearnings of their bigger, brighter, more authentic selves.
My work draws on decades of meditation and yogic practices, body-based strategies to alleviate anxiety and depression, and somatic methods like Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy and Relational Somatic Healing.
Somatic Healing
Somatic Modalities know “our issues are in our tissues” and can take us much deeper into healing than mind-based approaches. And though our bodies hold our histories, our bodies also innately know how to heal. They just sometimes need a little help getting that healing wheel turning.
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
is a form of body-centered psychotherapy that is both loving and effective in its approach to healing and growth. Born out of mindfulness principles, it helps you explore your patterns and get underneath them.
In a state of mindfulness, quite different from our regular state, we can more easily find understanding of our patterns and limitations. We access our inherent intelligence to guide our unique pathway forward. Through the loving kindess inherent in the approach, I’ve seen again and again, that when we acknowledge and even embrace our inner tensions, wounds, protections, histories or experiences, something new opens up and healing begins. It’s often surprising how quickly and succinctly the answers come.
This process is wonderful for feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, depression, confusion and stuck-ness, and can help you improve relationships, connect mind and body, find purpose, live in more alignment and step into the drivers seat of your life.
Relational Somatic Healing (RSH)
is a therapeutic modality that fully immerses the client in a new experience of a healthy, authentic, real, loving relationship with the therapist in the here and now. This enables clients to experience a healthy relationship with themselves, and the world.
This can be a very powerful method to heal developmental trauma and attachment wounding from the early years of life, that can otherwise feel so pervasive. It's a wonderful modality for trauma, grief and loneliness. It invites us into a depth of connection in relationship that might have felt previously unimaginable.
