Approach

I provide counseling for people experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, adjustment challenges, and women's issues. I see myself as a supportive partner in your journey. I work together with you and focus on your needs. I use attachment theory to understand how early relationships impact your life now. This approach helps heal past wounds in your current relationships. I also use proven therapy methods including:

• Hakomi Mindfulness-based Somatic Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Internal Family Systems

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Solution Focused Therapy

• Motivational Interviewing

Therapeutic Relationship

In offering counseling to individuals, my help is best received through forming a safe therapeutic relationship with you. A therapeutic relationship is one where you feel honored and supported for who you are and where you are in life. It is a relationship that offers you the space to express your genuine emotions and thoughts without judgment. This kind of relationship provides the foundation for deeper transformational work.

Hakomi Therapy

Hakomi is a mindfulness-based therapy that uses the awareness of the body's response to thoughts and feelings to create change. The principles of Hakomi are:

• Unity: an inclusive awareness of the interrelatedness of things

• Organicity: the recognition and honoring or each person's individuality

• Mind/Body/Spirit Holism: the assumption that all elements of experience are essential.

• Mindfulness: the value of being genuinely aware of exactly what is happening

• Nonviolence: a commitment to respect and loving regard

• Truth: the pursuit of the actual nature of things

• Change: the trust that things can and will move and evolve

For more information on Hakomi please visit the Hakomi Institute website.