“I am not done with my changes yet.”

- Stanley Kunitz, ‘The Layers’

Time together in therapy is time together in a relationship, one where the focus is on your own growth, and and your psychological wholeness. It is rooted in emotional safety, honesty, confidentiality, patience, and positive regard.

My training and work draws from many sources, including psychodynamic, somatic and humanistic psychologies.

These therapies aim to develop secure attachment, self compassion, trauma recovery, improved self regulation, and more meaning in your life. We support and build your resiliency, and your potential for growth beyond your conditioning and limiting beliefs.

The work may involve recognizing difficult feelings and truths as experiences are processed with respect and confidentiality. Actively practicing habits around these new and revised beliefs about yourself and others can create real growth and shifts in relationships and in a deepened life.

You may find your way forward in your life with a more expansive, more responsive and more flexible sense of yourself, and of others.

Psychodynamic work understands that we come from the experiences, conditioning and influences from previous generations, our childhood and aspects of our culture. We seek to make these more conscious so we can create more choice.

Somatic awareness is about mindfulness to the body - how you are breathing, what you are experiencing physically- as well as your thoughts and beliefs. It recognizes that our life and experiences are held in the body as well as in one’s thoughts and perceptions.

Humanistic psychology focuses on human dignity, and one’s own potential growth and self actualization.

EMDR and IFS each offer ways to safely process and revise traumatic experiences.

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“The great gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.” - James Hollis

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