My Approach
I’ve trained in several therapeutic approaches, but the two I most deeply align with are Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). These modalities are at the heart of my practice. I also weave in dream work as a complementary practice, when it feels aligned for clients, to explore the deeper layers of emotion, meaning, and inner experience.
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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.
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I have training in EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy). This model allow us to explore the ways you connect with yourself and others. Together, we will identify patterns in your current relationships and trace these dynamics back to your earliest experiences with parents and caregivers. Through this process, you can develop greater self-awareness, emotional understanding, and more secure ways of relating.
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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While dream work is not a clinical modality in itself, I value dreams as a meaningful pathway for exploration and self-understanding. Dreams can bring forward images, symbols, emotions, memories, and inner experiences that may not always be accessible through conscious reflection. Exploring dreams offers another doorway into our emotional world, illuminating patterns and parts of ourselves that may be seeking our attention and understanding. If dreams naturally arise as part of the therapeutic process, we can explore them together. This creates space for deeper awareness, integration, and connection with the self.
In our sessions, we may move fluidly between different ways of working, always guided by what feels most supportive for you in the moment.
At times, we’ll slow down and turn attention toward the body-tracking sensation, breath, movement, and the subtle ways your nervous system communicates experience. This helps us stay grounded in the present moment and supports the natural regulation and completion of survival responses, as understood in Somatic Experiencing.
At other times, we may gently explore and deepen your understanding of emotional and relational patterns-especially those shaped by earlier experiences. From an EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) perspective, this can help us make sense of the cycles you get caught in, the protective strategies that once made sense, and the underlying attachment needs that are asking to be met in new ways.
And there are moments where we may focus more directly on emotional processing-allowing feelings connected to past or present experiences to be felt, understood, and metabolized in a supported and titrated way, so they don’t feel overwhelming. In these moments, we work to stay within a window of tolerance where emotion can move through safely and integration becomes possible.
Over time, you may find yourself more able to stay present with yourself, more settled in yourself, and more open to connection with others in a way that feels safe and real.
60 minute sessions: $195
90 minute sessions: $285