With warmth, presence, sincerity, and compassionate interest, I work to deeply listen and understand you: who you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to go. I see therapy as a process, a journey we walk together. Rather than trying to “fix” you, I see my role as helping you connect more deeply with your own inner wisdom and capacity to heal.
No matter what you’ve been through or how unbelievable or far away that innate capacity may seem, I have an abiding, wholehearted faith in both its existence in you, and in the therapeutic process that brings you into lasting connection with it.
In addition to your verbal/narrative story, I attend to your nonverbal - somatic or body - language with compassionate curiosity, and invite your attention to these aspects of your experience at a pace that feels right to you. Attending to mind/narrative/cognition and body this way goes beyond “talk therapy” as it invites deeper, embodied awareness and understandings of the often unconscious patterns and origins of those patterns that have been troubling you; and allows for more authentic and nourishing patterns to emerge and solidify.
In other words, my approach isn’t just about talking about healing and transformation. It’s helping you have an actual lived experience of it.
Because when we finally have the relational safety to start to process what has had to stay sequestered away in isolation for so long, we experience new, healthy patterns of being, of relating, of knowing.
And the powerful thing about experience is that you can’t un-have it.
Experience stays with you. Repeated experiences that you share with another transform you and stay with you for life.
This approach comes from my training in Dynamic Enriched Experiential Psychotherapy, or DEEP. (You can read more about DEEP here.) DEEP is a relational model that incorporates cutting edge interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, somatic/body, and emotion research, rooted in depth, existential, and psychodynamic psychology fundamentals. Read on below to find out more about what working with me in this DEEP way looks like.
Warm, Empathic, and Respectful
Warmth, empathy, and respect for the unique individual you are are inherent to my way of being with you. They’re also crucial to help you feel safe in our work, and to support your exploration, healing, and growth. So we may have the opportunity to discover and understand your truest needs, I invite all parts of you into our relationship with warmth and empathy, with respect for the pace you need.
Engaged and Reliable
Our work matters to me. I honor the sacredness and vulnerability of what it means to be in therapy. I hold a small practice of clients that allows me to show up, all the way up, with each client I have the privilege of knowing. Because I also recognize the uniqueness of who you are and where you’ve been, I work with you to help us find the particular pace and way of being together that most supports your healing and growth.
Mindful, Curious, and Experiential
Truth resides in the present moment. Slowing down with curiosity about what is alive for you in your moment-to-moment experience with me creates space for us to deeply understand and attend to your authentic needs, strengthens your internal connection to your self, and allows exploration of deeper, often unconscious, memories, emotions, and beliefs.
Emotion and Body/Somatic Focused
Our bodies carry the unprocessed emotions and memories of our early, developmental experiences. At a pace that feels right to you, I will invite your attention to what is happening in your internal, bodily experience. Bringing attention to your emotions and bodily sensations this way reveals a wealth of information about what you need to feel safe, secure, and enlivened in life.
Authentic and Sincere
While the journey of transformation can feel mysterious and challenging in its gradual, emerging nature, one thing I always want you to feel and know is my presence with you in this process. I will show up as the real, wholehearted person I am with you every step of your courageous journey.
When someone deeply listens to you
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
- John Fox