INDIVIDUAL THERAPY (AGES 18+)

SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY: Emotions and the accompanying body sensations and thoughts can sometimes be overwhelming. This often leads to avoidance, distraction, depression, excessive worry, rage, collapse, relationship difficulties, and when extreme, self-medicating with drugs, alcohol, sex, video games, and other addictive behaviors. When we're triggered, the root cause is usually something from our past: messages from our families or peers that we interpret as being unloveable, too much, that something's wrong with us (shame),  or that our needs cannot be seen and met. These message are intolerable, and we use our minds and body patterns to protect these vulnerable parts, resulting in maladaptive patterns of behaviors. When traumatic events are part of our history, the nervous system attempts to manage with fight, flight (flee), or freeze (dissociation) to create a sense of safety. The result is unconscious, negative patterns held in the body and mind that get activated repeatedly. My approach is to identify, build-on, and use your strengths and resources, while also exploring negative patterns that stop you from living a full, integrated life. Together we cultivate your inner wisdom through gentle focused attention and presence (mindfulness), awareness of and building capacity for the somatic (body) sensations response to triggers and the accompanying internal dialogue, with the goal of bringing healing to these hurt places inside. The result is more choice, freedom, and possibility for your life.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): A treatment modality that supports healing from symptoms and emotional distress of traumatic memories, including chronic pain. Unlike other therapies, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual, emotional, and somatic processes. In my practice I offer the deeper eight-phase treatment protocol that utilizes bi-lateral stimulation (primarily eye movement) to process traumatic memories, and the more gentle Flash Technique when the traumatic memories are too distressing to recall.

PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY/KETAMINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY (KAP): A unique therapeutic method used to address a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, post-traumatic stress, chronic pain, addiction, and some forms of anxiety. It involves the use of the psychoactive substance ketamine to enhance and deepen the therapeutic process, and the use of psychotherapy and other integrative forms of treatment to amplify and prolong the curative effects of ketamine.

PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION: An important part of any psychedelic or consciousness-altering experience is the integration of the experience days, weeks, or months afterwards. Engaging in integration during and after a psychedelic experience minimizes the possibility that the healing benefits of the medicine will be buried or lost as ordinary consciousness returns. Together we identify ways to engage with and enhance the experiences, ideas, feelings, and sensations of the experience, and identify practices to includes in daily life to promote healing.