I use a “whole body approach”, which means a variety of things:
I ask about how you sleep, how you eat, and how you move, amongst other factors that may affect your lifestyle.
I make it a priority to find which self-care methods work best for you as an individual, and how to incorporate those into daily living.
I encourage collaborations between me, your doctor, your chiropractor, your dietician, etc. to ensure that your healthcare team is working together when necessary.
There’s a general goal of healing the relationship between your mind and your body.
I use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) along with Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help you process past distress or persistent negative beliefs. Through these theories, I’ll help you understand you are a Self, composed of many parts that have feelings, needs and roles in your life. I can help you free these parts from feelings, memories, and behaviors that no longer serve you. I will help you heal those unmet past needs to be seen, heard, loved and understood.
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My Approach
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I talk casually during sessions so that you’ll feel like we’ve met before. I’ll ask you about what’s been going on and how you’re experiencing it. We'll talk about your weekend, or how far you made it into that project you’ve been wanting to start. I genuinely want to know how you’ve been doing. I’m not afraid to talk about the hard or awkward stuff, and I’m also not afraid to let you know when you’re limiting yourself or doing great and overlooking it.
When you work with me, I help you sort out all of the pieces of your life and how they are interacting. And then we will look at the big picture together. We’ll look the things that are holding you back and create tangible plans to help you move past them. I’ll help you work with your body to learn how to feel, freeing yourself from the pain your body is holding from the past. With small, achievable steps, I’ll help you put all the pieces back together again to form the life you imagine for yourself. One full of freedom, indulgence, joy and fun.
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION & REPROCESSING (EMDR)
EMDR can be utilized for trauma and changes the way we perceived the event. EMDR is a targeted evidenced based modality and can treat issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD and repeating patterns you may experience. Issues such as speech presentation, presenting for exams, improving your coping when faced with challenges, and letting go of issues from the past.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)
Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of therapy. IFS believes the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome. IFS is a movement. A new, empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and larger human systems. One that can help people heal and helps the world become a more compassionate place.
HOLISTIC SOMATIC HEALING
Using the body as our guide, this type of healing teaching awareness of body sensations. Often times emotion are stored in the body. When we have experienced difficult things, it perhaps was not safe to be connected to our bodies. Holistic somatic healing develops a re-connection with our bodies in a safe, empowering way. This allows our body’s organic intelligence to offer up awareness, insight and repair. Through this work, you may come home to your body again, feeling reconnected with physical sensations and emotions, identifying needs and feeling states.