My passion is to live an authentic life and assist others in doing so as well. I believe it is within that we can find our authentic path.
As a psychotherapist, I work to build relationships of care and trust with the intention of co-creating a healing environment.
Over twenty-five years ago as a young adult, in an attempt to heal myself I turned to yoga from an intuitive pull within. At this same time I started to work with a therapist. It was sitting with this person week after week as well as the discipline of relocating my body on the mat with various yoga teachers that I found myself drawn to healing work.
An aspect of my suffering when I was young had to do with the state of the world that I felt very helpless to do much about. I felt that if we each had the capacity to heal, one person at a time, the world would begin to heal. This was something that felt possible to me and so I committed myself to the healing journey both as one in need of healing and as one looking to offer healing. I still believe this and carry this with me, both in my life and in my practice with clients.
I have been practicing as a (w)holistic psychotherapist for nearly twenty-five years now, having studied many somatic psychotherapy models such as sensorimotor psychotherapy with Pat Ogden and Yoga (both asana and chakra) on the mat and in Psychotherapy with Anodea Judith along with mindfulness practices and self-compassion practices and, very close to my heart, The Discipline of Authentic Movement.
About ten years ago I became interested in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model founded by Richard Schwartz, where I have fully committed myself. This model has proven to carry all of this in one place and offers so much more. It was finally with IFS that I truly experienced healing, what I had set out for all those years ago, and what I have always intended to offer my clients. When I welcome you into my practice, I welcome you in to healing.
