I am a holistic, somatic psychotherapist working in the greater Boulder area. I specialize in working with individuals and couples across a wide variety of issues including trauma, anxiety, depression, personal growth and sexuality. I primarily use mindfulness-based approaches as the core of my practice. I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and am PACT level 2 trained for couples therapy.
Please contact me to schedule your free 30-minute phone consultation.
Please contact me to schedule your free 30-minute phone consultation.
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I am a mental health professional working in the greater Boulder area.
I specialize in working with individuals and couples across a wide variety of issues including trauma, anxiety, depression and sexuality.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and a PACT level 2 trained couples therapist.
My approach to mental health includes the belief that all people have intrinsic sanity and part of my job as a clinician is to help collaborate with that sanity to explore the various obstacles that you face in your life and in your relationship.
I specialize in working with individuals and couples across a wide variety of issues including trauma, anxiety, depression and sexuality.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and a PACT level 2 trained couples therapist.
My approach to mental health includes the belief that all people have intrinsic sanity and part of my job as a clinician is to help collaborate with that sanity to explore the various obstacles that you face in your life and in your relationship.
I have always liked calling psychotherapy "assisted self-discovery."
I do not focus on diagnosis or working to solve a problem but rather apply a nonjudgmental curiosity to study and explore your internal landscape in a relational way.
My practice is rooted in developing our capacity for mindfulness.
Within mindfulness we can have increased access to deeper and subtler aspects of our experiences.
Being able to simply feel what we are feeling is necessary before we can begin to name it and communicate it with others.
I do not focus on diagnosis or working to solve a problem but rather apply a nonjudgmental curiosity to study and explore your internal landscape in a relational way.
My practice is rooted in developing our capacity for mindfulness.
Within mindfulness we can have increased access to deeper and subtler aspects of our experiences.
Being able to simply feel what we are feeling is necessary before we can begin to name it and communicate it with others.
Hakomi is a mindfulness-based, somatic, experiential form of psychotherapy.
It is a methodology designed to uncover and explore unconscious core beliefs that guide our lives without our awareness.
Using mindfulness we can learn how to witness thoughts, emotions, memories and bodily sensations without judgment and in a loving, compassionate presence.
Hakomi encourages and facilitates a sustained inward focus of attention and heightened sensitivity to present moment experience.
Hakomi practitioners typically conduct experiments while in mindfulness to elicit experiences that will illuminate core material.
It is a methodology designed to uncover and explore unconscious core beliefs that guide our lives without our awareness.
Using mindfulness we can learn how to witness thoughts, emotions, memories and bodily sensations without judgment and in a loving, compassionate presence.
Hakomi encourages and facilitates a sustained inward focus of attention and heightened sensitivity to present moment experience.
Hakomi practitioners typically conduct experiments while in mindfulness to elicit experiences that will illuminate core material.
I like to distinguish between "little t trauma" and "big t Trauma."
This can also be understood as "acute trauma" or "developmental trauma."
Big T Trauma refers to an intense acute experience that was to big and overwhelming for your system to handle on its own so it shifted in a fight/flight/freeze response.
This trauma could include the death of a loved one, military service, sexual assault, or childhood abuse.
Little t trauma or developmental trauma usually accrues over time and are much less intense or acute.
This can also be understood as "acute trauma" or "developmental trauma."
Big T Trauma refers to an intense acute experience that was to big and overwhelming for your system to handle on its own so it shifted in a fight/flight/freeze response.
This trauma could include the death of a loved one, military service, sexual assault, or childhood abuse.
Little t trauma or developmental trauma usually accrues over time and are much less intense or acute.
It is invaluable to explore our social locations and identities and understand how to use our power with more ethics and more heart.
In therapy, we can explore how your personal process is linked to larger social and cultural contexts.
We can focus on building your skills in being sensitive and aware of power dynamics in your relationships to reduce harm and increase more authentic, compassionate relationships.
We will also work on staying in relationship throughout conflict.
It is vital to build skills in resolving and repairing conflict within your relationships.
In therapy, we can explore how your personal process is linked to larger social and cultural contexts.
We can focus on building your skills in being sensitive and aware of power dynamics in your relationships to reduce harm and increase more authentic, compassionate relationships.
We will also work on staying in relationship throughout conflict.
It is vital to build skills in resolving and repairing conflict within your relationships.
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