Services
I offer ongoing individual therapy (50 minutes) and assessments/consultations with couples (usually three 75 minute sessions with the couple and two 50 minute one-on-one's) from which I can provide clear and direct feedback about the dynamics unfolding in the partnership and treatment recommendations. I do not provide couples therapy at this time.
My therapeutic support is not just talk therapy - It is experiential and bottom-up. This means that in our sessions we will talk, but we will also take time to notice what the body is communicating and to tend to the physiological states that are arising. For example, we will pause to feel and work with emotions, sensations, impulses, images or ways we are making meaning that arise in the moment. In my experience, simply challenging/shifting the content of the thoughts doesn't provide lasting change for clients. The content of the thoughts is arising from certain physiological states and as we work with the nervous system via the body the thoughts and perceptions shift over time in a more stable and integrated way. Sometimes we might also practice dropping agenda all together and following the wisdom of what is emergent within embodied awareness. In my experience learning to allow an 'organic' unfolding enables the most integrated and powerful shifts in our process.
I have found that client's who already have an investment in, and practices that support, their growth and embodiment get the most out of work with me. As such, I only take on clients who already have some form of contemplative practice, or who are willing to begin a regular contemplative practice. These can include meditation, yoga, chi gong, creative practices like art or movement practices, prayer, etc.
My specialty areas are:
- Therapy where we don't just focus on problems, but give attention to and build up the resources, resilience and coherence that is already present
- Helping people cultivate embodiment and find greater authenticity and healthy disinhibition
- Supporting people in returning to the many aspects of our humanity from which we may feel currently cut off (play, rest, healthy aggression, intuition, etc)
- Body-based/experiential therapy for shock and developmental trauma
- Relational work - both relational work within our sessions and supporting healthy boundaries, interdependence, and individuation in your broader life
- Parts work and using parts work to find a more integrated/whole expression
- The intersection of body-based therapy for trauma/somatic experiencing and spirituality/contemplative practice
- Supporting folks who are having adverse affects from meditation or for whom meditation practice has lifted trauma
- Psychological support that is holistic/feminist/anti-racist and supports reclamation of our relationship with nature and indigenous and intuitive ways of knowing and healing (for example, cultivating ritual, practices for grieving and letting go, and tapping into interconnection/belonging)
- Clients who want to incorporate awareness of cultural conditioning/context/identity into their therapeutic work/anti-oppression rooted therapy
- Guidance for one's spiritual practice/mindfulness practice
Fees:
I do not accept insurance. My standard fee is $135 a session. For those for whom this fee would be prohibitive, or who would like to offer a higher fee in support of those who need a lower fee, I offer a sliding fee scale that ranges from $85 to $165 a session. The 85-135 range of the scale is offered freely to those who have need of it, and the 135-165 range of the scale is for folks who can afford to offer more generously in support of those who need lower fees/the sustainability of my sliding fee offerings.
Fees are usually set in discussion with one another as we begin our work and can be adjusted as needed when circumstances change. My fee scale is part of my ongoing commitment to being in community in ways that acknowledge and celebrate that we're all located differently and support us in giving and receiving according to our need and ability.
I am happy to provide super bills for you to submit to insurance for out of network reimbursement.