My Mission
My practice, Wholistic Healing, promotes intentional growth and development for adolescents and adults. Working from a relational approach, my style is decidedly supportive, empathic, transparent, and playful while retaining a keen sensitivity to the pain that prompts a desire for change. I will not sugarcoat issues at hand, but I am dedicated to telling you the truth with kindness and humor, while honoring the deep hopes we all have for growth and change.
Creating a warm and non-judgmental space to welcome clients into is central for me as we begin our therapeutic relationship. I foster a creative and compassionate stance when addressing the challenges with which each client struggles. Recognizing that each person offers a cross-cultural experience and that trust takes time to develop, I am committed to the process of earning client's trust. Difficulties are celebrated as opportunities for growth and development in the healing process. Because a therapeutic relationship is so personal and intimate I guarantee that our working relationship will be rooted in confidentiality, privacy, and integrity.
When our minds are calm and centered, we can begin to study historic but active patterns in ways we treat ourselves and others so that we can creatively engineer new ones. This work is collaborative and embraces hope and healing for our future as we work in the here and now. In doing so, the past informs, but does not define us.
I have helped clients feel supported through transitions in life, develop new capacities to overcome chronic pain and health difficulties, worked with them to create strategies for reducing and managing anxiety and depression and honored losses in their lives. I have extensive knowledge and training with more than 13 years of experience working with survivors of trauma of all ages.
Healing is possible.
I help clients honor their inner wisdom, the intelligence of the mind-body connection, and their hope for conscious growth after unspeakable loss.
Whether you're hoping to find your voice, recover from a painful relationship, develop your sense of self, intentionally seek support during a private struggle, or foster a sense of balance after surviving trauma, I believe I can help.
While I believe that each journey of healing is unique, research has found psychotherapy to be one of the most cost-effective forms of growth. I like to think of therapy as an investment in your future. Transformation is possible. I am here to help.
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My Philosophy
Authenticity & Integrity
Competence & Compassion
Curiosity & Humor
Empathy & Respect
Gratitude & Hope
These are the cornerstones of my practice.
Developing self-compassion is one of the most difficult and yet, often, most illuminating part of the the therapeutic process.
I believe we all do the best we can with what we have been given.
Central to healthy gains in therapy, is a good fit between myself and my clients.
Emotional safety for my clients is central for healing.
A balanced mind and body is a balanced life.
Growth is an intentional process of development.
We are relational beings, therefore relationships are essential to our healing process, even when we fear opening up again after a harmful or hurtful relationship.
Slow growth is healthy growth.
Truth telling is a brave and courageous process. In doing so, we can better define and create the life we deeply long for.
I am decidedly solutions focused, rather than problem focused.
I understand symptoms to be expressions of individuals’ or families’ efforts to cope with stressors.
I honor how individuals and families have coped and help them to develop additional insights, skills, and resources to move forward.
I help clients discover and deepen existing resources in their lives.
I recognize that individuals often seek help when their original survival strategies become problematic or maladaptive.
I celebrate human dignity and diversity.
Finally I strongly adhere to the Hakomi principles which include these five tenets:
Mindfulness, Nonviolence, Unity, Organicity, & Mind-Body Integration
My trauma training has been influenced and informed by the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. I have embraced these Hakomi values as the the foundation to my clinical work. To read more, please click here.