Somatic & Touch Therapy
Our minds and bodies are deeply interconnected, along with a very human need to connect in various ways to other beings. For a variety of reasons, and especially after the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, connecting with ourselves and with others has been very difficult. Somatic therapy invites you to be in your body, which can provide tremendous relief for a number of ailments. Additionally, improving connection in your body is a great way to safely begin connecting with others – learning how to ask for what you want, speak up for your dis/comfort, and relaxing into the pleasure that is being held in trust.
Polyvagal Theory
Practicing therapy with me helps to exercise circuits for connection and co-regulation so that you less frequently experience overwhelming emotions and when you do, it’s dramatically easier to cope with from a physiological standpoint. Simply put, working with me will help you move through the world more comfortably.
Psycholytic Pyschotherapy and Pyschedelic Integration
Indigenous plant medicines offers a depth of wisdom rarely found in traditional talk therapies.
Psychedelic journeys allow for dramatic increases in neuroplasticity, developing insights and showing you new ways of thinking, being, and enjoying your life.
Psycholytic psychotherapy is a profound way to enhance your experience with trance-like states (used in trauma therapies like IFS and EMDR).
Depth Psychology
Before the DSM and health insurance radically changed the practice of psychotherapy in the mid 20th century, therapy looked fundamentally different in certain ways. In my practice of decolonizing therapy, I have come to value the richness of depth psychology, also called Jungian or Post-Jungian psychoanalysis or archetypal psychology.
Depth psychology embraces the unconscious – something science cannot fully explain – as well as dream analysis, and the power of myths and meaning in a person’s life. The goal of depth psychology is to cultivate greater wisdom, with which many people find a sense of purpose.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a framework for understanding ourselves as having many differentiated parts of us, compelled to protect us from rejection or abandonment, and developing a relationship between the person and the protective parts that are trapped in extreme roles to create a greater sense of harmony.
Intersectional Feminism
The therapy I practice is rooted in solidarity, a struggle for liberation that unites everyone. We all have a part to play in healing our communities and our planet, a large undertaking that requires healing ourselves. feminist therapy includes the cultural, societal, and political aspects of your well-being and treats you as a whole person.
Part of practicing liberatory social work is being curious and reparative as I unlearn white supremacy and settler colonialism, and remember how to hold people in true equanimity. I must acknowledge the politics of therapy, for which I am always growing, and the unalienable fact that my clients teach me just as much as I teach them.