Body & Mind Therapist

Trauma Healing and Personal Growth

Master's in Counseling

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Gestalt Certified Therapist

Body-Mind, Imagery and Perinatal

10+ Years in Private Practice

Trauma, Nervous system regulation, Chronic illness

I don't do diagnosis, I don't do labels. I meet you as you are, where you are at, and together, we find the path to the healing and the growth you require.

Whether you are experiencing anxieties, depression, feeling stuck in your life, longing for more aliveness, I will support your process and propose explorations and sit with you as you try new ways to show up in your life.

Aliveness will be our North star.

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All the answers are in your body. I will guide you and facilitate a deeper and healing relationship with your body.

You will find the answers your are looking for. And much more.

Trauma Healing

Experiences that were too intense are stored to be processed later. They create a load for the nervous system and require complex coping strategies that are often maladapted to normal life.

Nervous System Regulation

The autonomic nervous system and its primary vagal nerve oscillates between up-regulation (activation and mobilization) and down-regulation (rest and relaxation). With trauma, but also chronic illness or prolonged high stress situations, the system may lose its ability to transition smoothly and optimally from one state to the other. This causes significant challenges for a calm and steady mental state.

Relationships & Boundaries

We are relational beings. We learn, we adapt, we feel loved through relationship. Relationship with ourselves and with others. Our biology is built around relationship and particularly when it comees to healing and growing. What is hurt in relationship can only be healed in relationship.

My Approach

Safe & Healing Space

Therapy is fundamentally a recurring encounter with another human being. It is an encounter in which intimacy, safety, contact, and emotions are present. As these encounters recur, the experience of oneself in relationship AND being ok become predictable. The person learns that they can go through difficult experiences, feel connected and seen, and not be rejected. They develop the confidence that, whatever life brings, they will ultimately be okay. This growing expectation of safety is what brings trauma to an end. The therapist’s central task is to create sessions that are consistently safe, contactful, and powerful. Any therapeutic method can be effective, but no single method will be powerful for every client in every session. What a person needs to heal and grow in one session may not be the same as what they needed in the previous session. That's why I have trained and studied many approaches, it allows me to engage in a creative exploration with you, of what is needed right here right now. If working with a therapist feels as if the sessions are losing their power, it may be time to challenge the therapist—or find someone else.

Body

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy -Friedrich Nietzsche.

What I have learned in my own healing work, and then from 12 years of working with my clients, is that the problem always comes down to a lack of connection with the body. A powerful mind disconnected from the body will create complications, loss of intuition, difficulty to heal, to manage intense situations without stress. A lot of the work we will do together is to develop your connection with your body and deepen your intuition.

Imagery

I use imagery in a broad sense. Imagery is a powerful way to connect with what we feel, the meaning we make, and what may be needed for healing and growth. I facilitate imagery experiences to help you access your symbolic, sensory, and unconscious inner world.

Focus on relationship

Through relationship, we discover ourselves — and by becoming aware of how we stop contact, we find the path back to what has been hidden, protected, or held inside.

Experiences

Safety is not just explained into existence; it arises through lived experience. We go through a hard time, and we come out okay. From that experience, we gain confidence that we can manage this kind of difficulty again.
This is why I take an experiential approach. We focus on what you are experiencing in the here and now, and we go through that unfolding together.