About Therapy

You wake up in the morning

Only to realize that you are experiencing that same old familiar sense of dread and anxiety

A vulnerable sense of fragility and overwhelm permeates your experience

Your body is all wound up

A piercing sensation in your chest,

Tightness in your jaw,

A nauseating pit in your stomach,

You experience all kinds of body pains and aches from the constant attention you carry in your body.

Your mind won’t shut up.

It incessantly bombards you with an ongoing commentary about the past, present and future

“You should not have done that…”

“This is going to happen if you don’t act now…”

“You are supposed to be over this by now”

“You are a healer for god’s sake, how come you are still suffering from this?”

“After so many years of working on yourself and you still struggle with this?”

and so on…

You suck it up and go about your day

One the one hand trying to ignore your experience like a half zombie. And on the other feeling guilty for not being in the present moment.

So…

You push harder, trying to get things done. You recommit to your Yoga practice, Increase your mindfulness meditation. You sign up for another coaching program.

It all helps a bit,

But when the empty feeling, fear and lack of safety inside hits you again, you flee one more time towards your familiar escape routes

Numbing yourself with a bit of pot or diving deeper into work.

There must be more!

We are trained very early on to believe that our sense of value and our well-being depends on external circumstances. We need to have the right job, the right looks, the right this or that, and we believe this.

We create our identity and our lives based on this. But there is something deeper in us. Something that cannot be pinned down into a category.

It’s our aliveness – our being-ness. Let’s call it our depth. Our depth is not touched by our conditioning. It is intrinsically complete and does not need anything external. Accessing this is crucial in gaining freedom from our mental, emotional, cultural, and other constraints.

Anxiety, depression, trauma, addictive patterns, and self-destructive behaviors don’t touch our depth, but our depth can touch these so-called symptoms and make them much easier to navigate.

If we work together, I will help you find this inner resource so that it can became a great support for working with your particular situation.

About Me

I absolutely love this work!

I love that, on a regular basis, I get to witness the strength of courageous individuals willing to look inwards and open their hearts to the parts of themselves they’ve rejected in the past. You know, like that deep sense of inadequacy or shame. That inner feeling that something is wrong with themselves, that feeling of vulnerability or that fear.

We tend to push those away, because they are very hard to tolerate; but as long as we reject them, they will control our actions underneath. Conversely, as we allow ourselves to feel that shame, that vulnerability, that pain, we open up to new ways of being. We have more access to our depth which paradoxically is not affected by the pain. We must go through the difficult feelings to get to the clarity, the spaciousness, the freedom of our being.

I love helping people connect with what is real about them – that which is often hidden under layers of pain. By going within with skill and guidance, we meet our wounds. As we meet them with kindness, we discover that underneath them there is our depth, our strength, and our courage.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret…

I’ve gone to school for many years and earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I also completed a three-year training and certification program to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. So, my approach is informed by science and various theoretical orientations in psychology.

BUT…

I have learned much more about the therapeutic process through my own therapy, meditation, spiritual practice, and direct work with my clients than all my studies and professional trainings combined.

Don’t get me wrong: Studies and trainings are important, and they give us a framework or map to think and conceptualize…

… but at the end of the day, when sitting together in the room or in front of the screen, all the intellectual understanding drops away; and whatever needs to happen happens in an intuitive way. At least that’s how I see it.

We’re all different and cannot be placed in a box or a category.

No technique or therapeutic approach will work with everybody; so, as your therapist, my job is to find out what is going to help.

But I can’t do it alone. We need to collaborate on this and discover what will help… together. I am not the expert on you. You are.

When I’m not doing therapy…

I dance and let my freak come out. I hike, run, and ponder the big questions of life.

I also love to play and create.

I have a small YouTube channel where I make videos about being human with silly humor and playfulness. I have a lot of fun doing them.

I am also an amateur jewelry maker. I love to get lost in the creative process and see what comes out on the other side.

It’s very important to let the child in all of us come out and play

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