My Approach
My Vision
My intention, through sitting with you and whatever challenges you face, is to support you in connecting with your inner knowing, so you can consistently trust yourself and respond to uncomfortable emotions, thoughts, and beliefs with curiosity, compassion, and creativity, and from there—confidently express yourself in your decisions, relationships, and work.
My Primary Approach: Internal Family Systems (IFS)
My primary approach is Internal Family Systems or IFS. IFS is an evidenced-based modality that I’ve found to be compassionate, accessible, and transformational.
It’s based on the idea that we all have a sense of self that is untouched by trauma and is available to us. (You may have sensed it while in nature, in the flow of your art, journaling, or having a meaningful connection with a loved one.) In essence, it’s human to experience challenges and respond in the best ways we can at the time. Yet, those once brilliantly adaptive strategies become habitual and often come at a cost to us. IFS helps us to have more choices over our responses —to more consistently approach both the joys and challenges of life with curiosity, compassion, playfulness, creativity, courage, connectedness, and confidence.
What is it like to work together?
Clients tell me that they feel deeply understood, supported, and even celebrated in their internal exploration and growth.
You’ll come with your unique priorities, and we’ll work at a pace that is right for you.
Your confusion, contradictions, emotions, playfulness, shame, tears, fears, and laughter are all welcome. This is time for you, as you are.
While some changes may happen quickly, others will likely be gradual and long-lasting.
Additional Approaches we may draw upon…
HSP-Focused and Supportive Therapy
We’ll draw on HSP research and your unique experience to address some specific HSP needs. These may include creating a sustainable rhythm that balances your priorities, including your real need to recharge, and exploring relationship roles that you may have fallen into (peacekeeper, people-pleaser, caregiver, the one without needs, etc.). When do you want to intentionally use your gifts? Which protective strategies have you relied on (perfectionism, avoidance, etc.)? What stories (related to success, having to do it alone, or not being ___enough [fill in the blank] ) get in the way, and what are your options for overcoming obstacles?
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) helps us to overcome obstacles that stand in the way of our goals.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy works with the wisdom of the body, giving us access to information we may otherwise miss and offering healing from the “bottom up” or by accessing the limbic system (feeling center of the brain) and the nervous system.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a "third wave" cognitive behavioral therapy. It helps us to both accept ourselves as we are and make meaningful changes by aligning realistic action steps with prioritized values.
Image Transformation Therapy
Image Transformation Therapy offers a gentle approach, based in neuroscience, to work through past trauma and its effects on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Mindfulness
We may explore guided imagery, breathing, and mindfulness strategies to sense our capacity for calm, ease, groundedness, centeredness, spaciousness, and flow. The more we spend time in these states, the more we trust that they are innate qualities of ourselves.
