When seeking therapy, it is often at a time when you are feeling vulnerable, and you need help right away. You are looking for a warm skillful therapist who knows how to address the challenges that you are facing. My therapeutic intention is to provide you with a safe space where you can sense and track what you are experiencing and learn how to empathically attune to what your body and mind needs.  Finding the right therapist is essential to having a positive outcome. I can guide you how to make positive emotional shifts and behavioral adjustments that align with your personal goals.

I understand that revisiting vulnerable places may touch on feelings of pain, confusion or even shame. Using body awareness exercises, self-regulation techniques and meta-awareness skills tailored to your specific needs, I can support you in finding effective approaches to be with yourself kindly and compassionately. You can heal the places inside that need tending and reconceptualize habitual narratives that may be impacting and detracting from your capacity to achieve what you want to cultivate in your life.

With over 23+ years of experience, my psychotherapy practice uses current evidence-based techniques such as the research at the intersection of the neuroscience and psychology fields. Combining Somatic Embodiment Practices with a Relational Theory lens, I am trained to accompany you in mapping your internal world.  We will discuss ways to improve executive functioning skills which are necessary to organize and manage your daily life.

Throughout my psychotherapy training in Somatic Psychology at California Institute for Integral Studies, I studied therapeutic approaches that are proven to maintain your equilibrium within the mind space, develop embodied self-awareness of feelings and emotions and enliven your spirit. Together, we will define your goals and create a map so that you can succeed in transforming your life and strive to embrace your fullest potential.

Psychotherapy Services

My practice focuses on individual psychotherapy for adults

Potential Benefits of Therapy

1) Develop strategies to increase agentic thinking and communicate effectively with others

2) Improve your ability to self-regulate and self-monitor to contribute to an overall sense of balance in your emotional, mental and physical well-being

3) Receive empathic attunement and compassionate presence in a therapeutic setting

4) Learn how to define, observe and communicate your personal boundaries

5) Increase your ability to manage distressing emotions and sensations using emotion regulation techniques

6) Enhance lateral thinking abilities to enhance skills for creative problem solving and personal development

7) Develop analytic observational skills to evaluate habitual cognitive interpretations and replace them with conscious intentional responses to the vicissitudes of life experience

8) Increase interoceptive attention by practicing sensory awareness and grounding techniques to explore the internal atmosphere of your mind and body

9) Formulate a cohesive self-narrative to make peace with the past and experience the freedom to envision your future

For a New Beginning

In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety And the gray promises that sameness whispered, Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent, Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled, And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream, A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

~John O’Donohue To Bless the Space Between Us