My approach to psychotherapy is ultimately client-centered, integrating a clinical and holistic perspective

Focuses on the development of nervous system regulation after a traumatic event that resulted in dysregulation and disorientation. SE helps to increase awareness of and capacity to be with challenging emotions and sensations associated with the traumatic event. Much of the time, these experiences are held energetically in the musculature and other bodily tissues, and the autonomic nervous system (fight, flight, freeze, and “appease”) causing a host of symptoms such as sleep disturbances, avoidance of things that resemble the event, depression, irritability, nightmares, chronic pain, and more. The dis-ease in our bodies can lead our minds to interpret our experiences in ways that keep us disconnected from our lives and the people in them. SE can help to restore our sense of connection to our bodies, ourselves, and the people around us.

Increases emotional embodiment in a way that allows for one to have a deeper experience of emotions without being overwhelmed. Also supports regulation and works with the energetic or chakra systems. The ability to integrate deeper states of affect can lead to a sense of emotional completion, empowerment, resolution, and an overall sense of well-being.

This model addresses the trauma that can arise out of our attachment relationships and environmental failure. We are all born with a set of psychobiological needs that arise in a developmental time frame. Our survival depends on those needs being met. When they are not, the results can be devastating to our young bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. When this occurs we develop strategies to ensure not only our survival but the attachment relationships on which we so very much rely. These strategies stay with us into our adulthood, even though we no longer need them to survive. In fact, they get in the way of us having more fulfilling connections to our lives and the people in them. NARM helps to explore how we got to the point of feeling stuck as well as how to get “unstuck” by developing a sense of agency (how we are relating to ourselves and our environment).

Incorporates Somatic Experiencing® as well as elements of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy to facilitate a sense of safety and containment, the result of which can be relaxation, more energy, and release of emotion or energy that had been stored in the musculature and viscera due to trauma.