Therapy With Me

Our relationship is one of the most important aspects of our work together. If you do not feel safety and connection in your work with me, therapy will not be effective.

I will start by providing you with autonomic nervous system education and support. This helps us understand important patterns and strategies in your brain and body. This is different than a more traditional “top down” or cognitive / behavioral / psychodynamic approach. I work this way because the state of our nervous system has the most influence over our thinking brain.

I operate with the knowledge that your body is an exquisite system, responding to the systems around it. Interpersonal systems (family, friendships, community), socio-political systems, economic systems, environmental systems, etc. Together, we learn how your body is actively responding to these systems, past and present.

I do not believe in the disease / disordered model of mental health. I believe your body is wise and it is operating as it is designed to. I value your identity and your lived experience, and invite a deepening and expansion of all parts of you.

Your goals for our work are very important to me. I will work to support you to move toward your goals while also supporting you to exist more fully in your life.