About my practice
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What you practice
is what you have.
—Zen saying
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The heart of my practice, and my passion, is in helping clients resource, reprocess and resolve their trauma so that they can go on to live lives of intention, connection, vitality, hope and meaning.
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I am a relationally, somatically & psychodynamically-trained, trauma & attachment-informed, existentially & transpersonally-inspired, emotionally-focused, mindfulness-based, all parts inclusive, poly-friendly, pro-choice, queer-allied, antiracist, client-centered, EMDR-certified & dual-licensed psychotherapist curious about anything and everything being evoked within you & between the world and you. I am especially interested in unpacking & exploring what motivates us and why; in how we are shaped & impacted by family, temperament & culture; in exploring the places where our individual & collective conditioning intersect & overlap; and in how the sociopolitical matrix we find ourselves located & positioned in shapes, impacts and functions in us personally, professionally, romantically, familially, socially, collectively & otherwise.
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My practice integrates the following orientations & approaches:
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
AEDP: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Exposure & Response Prevention
ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
MBSR: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Moderation Management & Harm Reduction
Myers-Briggs 16 Personality Type
Karuna Training & the Five Wisdom Energies (secular contemplative Buddhist psychology)
PISAB: The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
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Couples approaches
EFT: Emotionally Focused Therapy
IFIO: Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFS/parts work for couples)