Integrative Psychotherapist, INT Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner & Breathworker
Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being - the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core"
Shakti Gawain
What I Specialize In
Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, as a form of alternative therapy aimed at relieving symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical-related trauma health problems. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. This helps to facilitate completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. Sessions involve a client tracking their own experience & offer a bottom up approach by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. Sessions also often involve touch work to help further facilitate movement in the physiology towards healing.
Psychotherapy
The therapeutic environment allows space for people to obtain confidential support while looking at current challenges, patterns that no longer serve them, and assistance with envisioning a life in alignment with their highest potential. People come to therapy for many different reasons, including depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, relationship issues, a history of trauma, a recent traumatic event, or a general feeling of being stuck.
Breathwork
Breathwork is a form of conscious breathing that brings awareness to the body by helping you to connect to subconscious thoughts, patterns, traumas, and emotions that may be creating challenges in your day-to-day life. By focusing on the breath, we are focusing on the present moment and creating an opportunity to release any stagnant energy that we may be holding in our body.
Often Breathwork can be seen as an invaluable part of the healing process as it supports us working through our own mental, physical and emotional blocks that do not allow us to thrive.
Breathwork can be used to support those who may be feeling "stuck" in life including those who may be struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, fear, trauma, and chronic pain. It creates a space for the mind and the body to relax and re-establish a connection to self by allowing emotions and energy to flow. Though Breathwork is often a guided practice, it is the belief that each of us holds the inner wisdom for our own self healing.
The Journey Towards Health Begins on the Path of Self Love.