Therapeutic Modalities
I’ve trained in several therapeutic approaches, but the one I most deeply align with is Somatic Experiencing with a deeply attachment-based orientation. Its at the heart of my practice.
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Attachment-Based Therapy allows us to explore your ways of connecting with yourself and others. You will learn to acknowledge patterns in your current ways of relating and trace these trends back to your earliest relationships with parents/caregivers. As an attachment based therapist, I place great value on establishing and maintaining a strong, trusting, and safe therapeutic relationship with you. A positive therapeutic relationship alone provides a new model for healthy connection and offers a safe space for you to learn and practice positive ways of relating, which you can apply outside of sessions.
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Somatic Experiencing is a body-centered approach to healing trauma and stress. Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, it recognizes that trauma isn’t just what happened to you-it’s what remains trapped in your nervous system and body.
When we experience overwhelming events, our nervous system can become stuck in a state of fight, flight, or freeze. Somatic Experiencing® helps you gently reconnect with the sensations in your body—the subtle signals your nervous system is sending—so that these stuck energy patterns can be released and completed.
Instead of relying only on talking or analyzing, this approach invites you to listen deeply to your body’s wisdom. By tuning into your physical sensations in a safe and paced way, your nervous system can gradually restore balance, resilience, and a sense of safety.
Through this work, you can move beyond the effects of trauma to reconnect with your natural aliveness, presence, and inner strength.
Through SE, we recognize and appreciate that the fight/flight/freeze energies are self protective responses, which emerge when we experience a threat. Because traumatic experiences prevent the completion of these natural protective responses, the energy becomes ‘stuck’ in the nervous system, wreaking havoc on a person’s emotional, mental, and physical life.
SE is a gentle approach, which allows the nervous system to complete the natural protective response that it was unable to complete. One begins to understand the language of their body, access tools that will allow them to self regulate and restore balance in their nervous system.
My therapeutic approach is deeply influenced by a range of visionary teachers and healers whose wisdom continues to shape how I understand trauma, the body, and the journey toward healing. I look to their work with deep respect and gratitude—it is through their teachings that I am able to support others with greater presence, compassion, and clarity.
Some of the key influences that inspire and inform my work include:
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Founder of Somatic Experiencing®, pioneering the body-based approach to trauma healing.
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Founder of Body-Mind Centering®, influential in somatic therapy and embodied awareness.
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Jungian psychoanalyst, storyteller, and author of Women Who Run with the Wolves. Her work draws on myth, folklore, and the deep feminine to guide women back to their instinctual nature, creativity, and inner wisdom.
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Jungian analyst and teacher whose work explored the deep connection between body, psyche, and the healing of the feminine. Her teachings inspire a return to embodiment, inner wisdom, and soul-aligned living.
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Renowned trauma expert known for integrating body-based therapies in trauma recovery.
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Co-developer of Somatic Resilience and Regulation and co-author of Nurturing Resilience. Known for integrating touch work and early developmental trauma into SE.
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Developer of Polyvagal Theory, illuminating the nervous system’s role in safety and connection.
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