“Working together means combining wisdom from your lived experience, with insights from non-pathologizing, survival-affirming, evidence-based methodologies.
This combination is aimed to humanize, empower, co-regulate, and deepen self-understanding.
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focus areas
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Big-T trauma is known as significant life events where life, limb, or dignity have been risked drastically and the individual did not have time to integrate the pain of experience. When we experience big-T trauma, there is a something like a “before and after” experience, where the human is reckoning on multiple painful levels life before and after the event.
Small-T trauma is known as ‘death by a thousand paper cuts’ and involves the slow degradation of an individual’s safety, esteem, or sense of psychological autonomy over time.
Ethnostress, historical trauma, soul loss, colonial trauma, genocide response, and ongoing traumatic stress are traumas that continue to hurt and scar people today. Talking about this and sharing stories of community, resistance, and love while tending to the wounds are some ways we can support you as you continue to walk your path with incredible resilience.
I use research and practice from Gabor Mate, Pete Walker, Clarissa Estes, Rachel Rickets, David Richo, Monique Grey Smith, Brandi Morin, and Bessel van der Kolk.
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Each brain and body system has its own unique set of rules, and those with a neurodivergent experience have ones that the atypical world rarely fully acknowledges or understands. If you are working with a brain-based experience of ADHD, Autism, OCD, HSP, or ESP you may have a unique experience that is often misunderstood in day-to-day life. Advocating for yourself may feel exhausting. Your genius and struggle may come hand in hand. It may feel isolating and like the capitalist system is not set up for you to thrive. Let’s talk about how tiresome or inspiring this can be, let’s open up a space where you can be you, without having to prove anything.
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The experiences of being hurt by a supremacist system are deeply fracturing people’s hearts, minds, workplaces, and families. Talking about it means we explore the injustices that have caused an environment in which you were not allowed to be, exactly as you are. Where you may even be unsafe. Listening to you means I can, with the utmost care, hope to hold space for the pain of this suffering. To see what I can support you with as you go forth with all the strengths that make you you.
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The shame, silencing, pain, and suffering that results from manipulation or assault in all its forms can be long-lasting, complex, and deeply confusing, especially when you have felt you couldn’t disclose your experience at the time. If you’re ready, I am here to listen to your story. I’m here to help deconstruct the narratives that keep you feeling powerless and victimized. It’s not easy work, but sharing can be a first step, if you need.
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Known as a dis-ease of memories stuck in the past or future, depression and anxiety can both feel as though they dominate consciousness. Using Narrative techniques to externalize your experience, we can start to loosen their grip, ultimately recognizing that you are not the problem, and that you have the strength to discover coping and healing that fits right for you.
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Whether in work, relationships, school, activism, parenting, families, personal life, stress is chaotic, and stress is hard on the nervous system. Mindfulness and hypnotherapy are well-documented interventions for the kinds of cyclical stress that damage our quality of life. Please inquire about how hypnotherapy can be useful for this kind of ongoing cortisol drenching!
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The four steps of NVC are stating observations, then feelings, then needs, then requests. This alone can revolutionize relationships and quality of life. Whether in romantic, familial, or professional relationships, NVC helps us de-escalate and get to the core of addressing our emotional and social needs within relationships.
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Expectations from society, families, and peers can have drastic impacts on the self-talk of people of all ages and backgrounds. Internalized shame, self-loathing, body dysmorphia, and disordered eating are some ways that people attempt to overcome the enormous pressure they feel to look or present a certain way. With time, awareness, and self-compassion, the path towards self-love is available.
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It takes a certain kind of safe space for pre-teens and teens to explore emotions, relationships, and personal struggles (anxiety, self-esteem, pressure). My approach is tailored to their stage of development to help them process feelings, build coping skills, and improve self-awareness in a way that resonates with their experiences.
methods
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Narrative therapy is about stepping back and reframing stories in a more empowering way. This approach fosters a sense of control, allowing individuals to rewrite their narratives in a way that aligns with their values and protests. It promotes self-awareness, resilience, and I see how it encourages a deeper connection to one’s identity and purpose. Narrative therapy is all about the ways you know best, even when you’ve forgotten for some reason.
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Hypnotherapy can help people access empowering sensations and creative ideas stored deep in the subconscious. By revisiting early experiences or generating a container to tune into one’s intuition, I help clients uncover the roots of current experiences, release unresolved emotions, and gain insights. This process often leads to emotional healing, reduced anxiety, greater self-understanding, and knowledge of where to go next. It can be tailored to directly support and wrap around your lived experience.
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Trauma-informed therapy responds to the impact of trauma on an individual's mental, emotional, and physical well-being. I aim to create a safe, supportive environment. I use the triage method designed by my supervisor Michael Towers, which follows the steps of first discovering all the ways you kept yourself safe and continue to do so. We then look at grief and what is lost, which leads us to being able to explore and re-explore identity. Then, we can look at the trauma from a different place, one in which you have a more secure grasp on who you are now and everything you have done to protect and care for yourself.
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Neuroscientific therapy blends psychology with neuroscience to help clients understand how the brain works. It focuses on using techniques that can reshape brain activity, like cognitive exercises and mindfulness, promoting healthier thought patterns and emotional regulation. I love approaching the development of neural pathways, helping individuals with their mental resilience, in turn enabling them to better manage and sometimes transform conditions like anxiety, depression, and trauma.