Therapies & Approaches
I have personally explored various therapies throughout my own healing and integrative journey and have found Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Hypnosis, and Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) to be powerfully compassionate and effective therapeutic processing modalitites.
If an internal battle is waging inside you...
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Self Understanding and Compassion Building
I will guide you through a non-pathological approach to understanding your system, We will look to collaboratively identify positive roles and intentoions of your protective parts, in order to cultivate compassion and invite space for curiousity and wholeness.
If you find yourself recalling negative memories...
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
Trauma Reprocessing
Together we will identify the maladaptive beliefs that you have been conditioned to hold, and reprocess them to cultivate a resilient and positive core understanding of your capacities. EMDR is a powerful neurological modality that goes beyond other thought-based approaches where we will build
a safe container around your processing experience.
If you find yourself disconnected from your body...
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Healing through Body Awareness
Pulling from the work of Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Gabor Maté (When the Body Says No) and Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing), I believe the body is the unconscious holder of our experiences. Everyone is at different places of comfort and awareness for this exploration. While body awareness is not necessary to deep therapeutic work (both IFS and EMDR can still be very effective without it), it is a facet of awareness I will encourage for clients who feel ready.
If you find your nervous system highly activated or shutdown...
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Clear Traumatic Shock, and Cultivate Nervous System Equilibrium
Gently work with the nervous system from a brain stem level, identifying orienting responses to threatening stimulus in memories, clearing the shock of trauma, and reprocessing overwhelming emotions.
If you feel ruled by internal unconscious energies...
Hypnosis
Imprint New Behaviour and Beliefs
Through guided relaxation techniques, gain access to your subconscious mind and alter deep seated behaviour with collaboratively developed, positive scripted beliefs.
If you find yourself searching for more...
Spirituality and Meaning of Life
While For clients who want it, this work can also open into questions of meaning and spiritual connection.
I have experience working with Spirit Guides, as well as intention setting and consolidating of psycheldelic experiences.
If you find yourself relationally stuck in old patterns...
Couples Therapy through IFIO: Intimacy from the Inside Out
(IFS with Couples)
I will help in identifying and acknowledging patterns of communication that are not working, and develop ones based on cultivating security, being heard, compassionate witnessing, expressing vulnerability, and honesty.