My Background

I’m a Body-Centered Psychotherapist who specializes in trauma and attachment. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Daring Way Facilitator, Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator, and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) who has specialized in working with teens, adults and families in healing from various forms of trauma in residential treatment, wilderness therapy, and outpatient therapy.   I held the Clinical Director position of a residential program with an integrative approach to healing as well as have worked in clinical positions in a myriad of community settings. I love to lead, teach, and facilitate groups and workshops that support integration and healing. I am passionate about helping others find their personal path to healing and wholeness by combining my clinical experience with deeply held body-centered practices such as yoga, yoga therapy, and yoga nidra. 

My therapeutic approach is influenced by my years of experience as a clinician, educator, and my growth as a human being. It’s important to explore the layers of ourselves through the context of our lives. As we do, we can find hope, inspiration, and meaning. Learning to anchor into our strengths helps us explore the parts of ourselves that we are struggling to integrate with the truest part of ourselves. Often time, we simply forget who we truly are and invest into the struggle instead. When we allow the struggle to define us, we can become lost. Whether it’s related to a past trauma, belief, or unexpressed emotions, the process of differentiating from past struggles allows us to be in the present moment.

Each of us is born whole and we learn things along the way that we “think” might be true about ourselves. Some things might define us in a positive light, whereas, others might evoke fear or disconnection. This is why building a trusting relationship with your therapist is vitally important. When this happens, the nervous system creates space for healing to begin. We are hardwired for connection, safety, trust, and meaning. As we experience the space of safety, we learn how to create it in ourselves, our relationships, and lives.

The body reflects much of the internal conversation we are having with ourselves Our five senses allow us to experience life, assess for safety, and is the pathway for cultivating love and belonging. We feel and experience our emotions through our bodies, yet many of us have not been taught to listen. Instead, we push away and avoid feelings and sensations because we have created a narrative that it’s too hard and we can’t handle it. As we learn to develop a relationship with our bodies, breath, emotions, and thoughts, we create the space for our inherent wisdom to both develop and to be listened to. This is not just in some of us, but all of us.