More than insight.
Understanding our histories and patterns can be enormously helpful. And we can know exactly why we do something and still find ourselves doing it.
That's why my work attends not only to the stories we tell about our lives, but to what happens as we sit together—what you feel in your body, what you need in the moment, and how new experiences can create new possibilities.
I draw from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), somatic approaches, mindfulness, and a broader understanding of how our individual healing is shaped by our relationships, families, cultures, and the living world.
The relationship between us
Therapy is a relationship in itself. We may notice what happens when you feel understood, when you disagree, when you want to pull away, or when something vulnerable begins to emerge.
These moments can offer opportunities to experience familiar patterns differently. I want you to feel that your questions, preferences, boundaries, and feedback are welcome here.
The wisdom
of the body
Our bodies are continually responding to the world around us. We might notice a tightening in your chest as you describe a difficult conversation, or a sense of spaciousness when something true is spoken.
Somatic therapy helps us become curious about these experiences without forcing them to change. Over time, this attention can support greater awareness, more choice, and a more grounded relationship with difficult emotions.
The stories
we inherit
None of us arrives here without a history. We inherit beliefs about love, success, gender, strength, belonging, and what it means to be good. Some of these stories sustain us. Others ask us to abandon important parts of ourselves.
I'm interested in how healing can involve both understanding these inherited patterns and reconnecting with sources of wisdom that may have been lost or interrupted—including our relationships with ancestry, myth, community, and the natural world.
Change with care.
There are times when change asks something difficult of us. We may need to grieve, tell the truth, take responsibility, or make choices that unsettle familiar ways of living.
I don't believe gentleness means avoiding any of this. I believe that care can make it possible to meet these moments with greater honesty.
My hope is that therapy helps you become more present in your life, more connected in your relationships, and more able to trust the values and wisdom you want to live by.
Healing as re-membering
I see healing as more than symptom relief or personal growth. It's a process of re-membering—bringing what has been fragmented back into relationship.
​This includes our relationship with ourselves, with each other, with our ancestors, and with the living world.
​I approach this work with a commitment to social justice, cultural humility, embodied anti-racism, and continued learning. I welcome LGBTQIA+ clients, neurodivergent people, and people in diverse relationship structures.