Services for individuals:
The services that you receive relate directly to your needs, comfort level, and desired outcomes. We will start with an assessment to ascertain your goals and aspirations and find out how you have previously attempted to address the issues. Through deep listening and targeted questions, I will assist you in identifying what is most important and meaningful to you, how your goals line up with your core values and desires, and what aspects of you are keeping you stuck in unwanted patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving. We get stuck due to ambivalence or inner conflict about ourselves, others or both. We use the therapy space to flesh out the various parts of ourselves that may be holding on to trauma, beliefs and protective behaviors that we took on to cope with hard situations that may no longer serve us. Those parts might need some attention, nurturing, healing, updating and unburdening in a safe and understanding environment. My primary modality for this work is Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Other approaches may include EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Sensori-motor psychotherapy, guided imagery, mindfulness, and body awareness exercises. These somatic methods are seamlessly incorporated into the cognitive aspects of therapy, as they help the body to accept, or “register” the cognitive changes within, which helps to solidify those desired changes and outcomes. Client feedback is a necessary component to a collaborative process.