Therapy Approaches & Specialties

Individual Therapy | Somatic Therapy | Neurodiversity Affirming

Individual Therapy

Therapy can be a time and space to join together to explore what behaviors have gotten you here today, what might be keeping you stuck, and plan for how you can start to live a life that feels more like yours. We can explore a range of topics including, but not limited to:

• late/un/self-diagnosed ADHD and/or Autism

• trauma

• relationship satisfaction

• self-worth

• life transitions

• symptoms of anxiety and depression

• numbing behaviors

I approach each client as an individual, pulling from multiple frameworks and encouraging clients lead the direction of our session. We can talk or use expressive arts. You can learn mindfulness skills or share music that influences your mood. My goal is to create a space where you feel safe enough to be whoever you are in the moment. Where you don’t have to change anything about yourself. Where you can be seen, heard, and held.

Somatic therapy has turned into a buzzword recently - I’ve heard about somatic breathwork and somatic yoga and somatic workouts. And, anything you do in your body is somatic - your body is your “soma”. I don’t offer shaking or hip circles to “release” the trauma in your body. When we’re in session, we practice tracking (paying attention to) what is going on in your body - through sensations, meaning, images that come up when we begin to notice your past (or current) experiences. We learn to pay attention so that you are able to consciously begin to do something different. In session, that sometimes looks like literally getting up and walking out of the room (for when you wanted to flee, but freezing might have been safer) and walking back in (you could actually leave if you wanted to - it’s up to you!). It could also look like imagining speaking words that have been stuck inside from the times that it didn’t feel safe enough to speak up. My hope is that whatever your body wants to do feels safe enough and you can learn what it feels like to have a different/corrective emotional experience to learn to trust your adult self.