I work with individual adults and teens, supporting them in a comprehensive therapy process that emphasizes EMDR, mindfulness, and other mind-body approaches to help them heal, grow, and thrive. I also work with athletes using these same techniques, to help them improve performance and enjoyment of their sport. I believe in the power of being listened to in a genuine, caring manner by someone who is trying to let go of their agendas and expectations, and I try to offer that as the foundation for each client session.
I also encourage my clients to try a combination of approaches to address their concerns and pursue the life they desire--but I respect their own sense of timing and readiness.
I also encourage my clients to try a combination of approaches to address their concerns and pursue the life they desire--but I respect their own sense of timing and readiness.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment approach that primarily helps people access and process the memories/feelings/thoughts/sensations of traumatic or troubling life events, in order to lessen or eliminate their negative impact on current life experience, and allow growth and health.
EMDR uses multiple treatment modes along with eye movement (as in REM sleep) to support the brain's natural inclination to process and positively integrate life experience.
EMDR can also be used to help athletes improve their performance, through similar processes, as well as EMDR techniques called "resourcing."
EMDR uses multiple treatment modes along with eye movement (as in REM sleep) to support the brain's natural inclination to process and positively integrate life experience.
EMDR can also be used to help athletes improve their performance, through similar processes, as well as EMDR techniques called "resourcing."
Mindfulness has been defined by medical researcher and author Jon Kabat-Zinn as "paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally."
Ideally the attention is also applied with kindness or compassion, while ones thoughts, feelings, body, and even surroundings are simply noticed as they are--however they happen to be in that moment, and however they happen to change (or not) as the next moment unfolds.
Inevitably the attention wanders away from the moment, and is gently brought back to the present, often through attending to the physical sensations of breathing.
Ideally the attention is also applied with kindness or compassion, while ones thoughts, feelings, body, and even surroundings are simply noticed as they are--however they happen to be in that moment, and however they happen to change (or not) as the next moment unfolds.
Inevitably the attention wanders away from the moment, and is gently brought back to the present, often through attending to the physical sensations of breathing.
Healing is often hard work.
Your body needs adequate nutrition to make it possible and effective.
Eating with nutrition in mind while in therapy is as reasonable and necessary as making sure your car has enough gas in the tank to take you where you want to go--but the possible connection between diet and success in therapy is easy to discount or try to avoid.
Eating food with adequate nutrients will translate to being better able to look at and process difficult memories, to work through times of conflict with your partner or child, to stabilize your emotions as you cope with anxiety or depression or bipolar disorder.
Your body needs adequate nutrition to make it possible and effective.
Eating with nutrition in mind while in therapy is as reasonable and necessary as making sure your car has enough gas in the tank to take you where you want to go--but the possible connection between diet and success in therapy is easy to discount or try to avoid.
Eating food with adequate nutrients will translate to being better able to look at and process difficult memories, to work through times of conflict with your partner or child, to stabilize your emotions as you cope with anxiety or depression or bipolar disorder.
What is it?
Sports psychotherapy assumes that athletic performance (on any level)--as well as enjoyment--depends on both the body and the mind, that in fact they are both part of one indivisible system.
However, in athletic training and competition it is easy to over-rely on just one part of this system: the physical.
We can't prepare for a marathon by just imagining running 26.2 miles in our minds, and we can't prepare for the basketball game by thinking about our jump shot.
Many miles have to be run, many shots in a empty gym after practice are key to making them in the game.
Sports psychotherapy assumes that athletic performance (on any level)--as well as enjoyment--depends on both the body and the mind, that in fact they are both part of one indivisible system.
However, in athletic training and competition it is easy to over-rely on just one part of this system: the physical.
We can't prepare for a marathon by just imagining running 26.2 miles in our minds, and we can't prepare for the basketball game by thinking about our jump shot.
Many miles have to be run, many shots in a empty gym after practice are key to making them in the game.
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