My Services
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I offer personalized individual therapy that responds to the unique needs of each client. I specialize in anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief.
Individual therapy is tailored to each person, but is always holistic and experiential. Many clients find me after realizing traditional talk therapy was not helping them as much as they hoped. In my individual therapy sessions, I act as a guide, watching for places to go deeper into the sub-conscious and shadow.
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Somatic Experiencing is a trauma modality developed by Peter Levine. It works with the nervous system to release trauma from the body. Traumatic experiences have a direct effect on the nervous system. They can cause prolonged fight or flight symptoms, such as racing thoughts, digestive issues, and insomnia. Trauma can also create a tendency to freeze or shut-down. This can look like chronic fatigue, low motivation, and depression. SE helps clients learn to regulate their nervous systems and release trauma through the body.
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EMDR is a trauma therapy modality that works with the mind and body to release stored emotions and shift internalized negative beliefs. EMDR is one of the leading modalities in trauma treatment. EMDR involves processing traumatic memories while using Bi-Lateral Stimulation to stimulate the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Through EMDR, traumatic memories remain, but the intense emotional charge associated with them is released and new narratives about resilience replace old negative beliefs.
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Anxiety and Depression often come together, although they can also be distinct. One way to understand anxiety is that anxiety is what happens when other emotions get stuck, like a kinked hose that gets backed up and starts to vibrate with pressure. Depression is similar; it is the body's way of shutting down in order to suppress feelings that feel "too much." Through tools such as parts work, mindfulness, and somatic therapy, clients learn how to understand the roots of their anxiety in stuck beliefs, emotions, and memories. They also develop tools for self-regulation and from separating from the negative beliefs and "stories" about themselves that keep them stuck.
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Ketamine is a psychedelic medicine that is demonstrating positive impacts on anxiety and depression and is gaining popularity in the mental health field. Combined with psychotherapy, ketamine can help catalyze and deepen the therapeutic process.
KAT sessions are 2.5 to 3 hours, giving us ample space to do a deep dive. Ketamine has a dissociative effect that can often create some separation from intense memories and emotional material. This can allow us to work with difficult memories and beliefs without getting as overwhelmed. Ketamine can also provide non-ordinary states of consciousness that can help clients access new perspectives and new ways of moving through psychological material. Of course, ketamine has different impacts on different people and from session to session.
If you are interested, you would first be screened by a medical professional and all ketamine therapy is done under the supervision of a medical professional. I would be happy to talk to you more about this process and if I think it might be supportive for your healing and self-exploration.
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Especially during the pandemic, telehealth has become an essential tool for therapy. It also offers more flexibility and can support clients with busy schedules. EMDR is also accessible over telehealth through a shared EMDR app that uses audio bi-lateral stimulation.