Creating a strong and non-dogmatic container together is the cornerstone of my practice. I am especially skilled at attuning, and providing company in places that you may have previously felt alone.

I am an IFS therapist, certified via the IFS Institute. I use Internal Family Systems therapy combined with Polyvagal theory (somatic work to rehabilitate our nervous system).

Parts Work is based on the premise that we are all made up of multiple parts with different perspectives, concerns, and motivations. A simple and common example of this could be saying one part of me wants to leave my relationship, and another part of me wants to stay.

In parts work, we would speak to each of these parts, as though they were separate people, in an attempt to understand fully the concern and motivation of each part.

Problems arise when parts make us feel anxiety depression, or other acting in behaviors. Or parts act out with behaviors such as working too much, drinking, binging and purging, self-harm, lashing out in anger, saying things we regret, and so on.

The most important tenet of Parts Work is that all of our parts believe they are protecting us, even if the way they are protecting us cause problems in our life.

With somatic therapy we use the body both as a place of inquiry, and as a place of resource. In session, we often check in with the body as we are talking. Sometimes we spend a lot of the session exploring sensation in the body, being with sensation, and noticing if it shifts into another sensation, (or feeling, or memory, or belief). We begin to recognize how every feeling, belief, or memory has a corresponding experience and sensation held in the body. When we pay a curious attention to these sensations, we can sometimes spontaneously have memories or feelings pop up that are ready to be looked at and healed.