Body Psychotherapy is a branch of psychotherapy that centers the body in the therapeutic process. This allows for a deepened understanding of how experiences like addiction, relationship and attachment, safety, grief, and trauma are experienced and stored on the level of the physiology and can impact our nervous system responses, and how this in turn, influences how we relate to ourselves, others, and our world. Cultivating somatic awareness, using present moment experience, sequencing through movements and emotions, and tracking the physical experience of both the therapist and client, is centered in this work.

 

I work with present-moment somatic techniques for accessing, deepening, transforming and integrating developmental and traumatic experiences. 

My work is informed by an understanding of nervous system regulation techniques, Gestalt-based "parts work" for integrating trauma responses and growing self-compassion, a strong (and nuanced) attachment lens, and work with client’s family of origin and/or chosen family. I am also influenced by the Satisfaction Cycle and Focusing as a means of traversing an individual’s internal world and experience of body and emotion. 

 

Through these tools, we can learn to recognize nervous system states in our own bodies and learn how to work with them with self-understanding, compassion, and support. When we have this foundation, there can be more room for the emotions and physiological experiences of fear, anger, love, joy, and grief to move through our bodies without getting stuck, and while staying in connection to ourselves and our world. 

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Together we can work to build safety in our relationship as a starting point for processing trauma, grief, and stuckness and supporting a deeper sense of choice, aliveness, relationship, and autonomy.

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Fees for counseling are $130 per 60 minute session. Insurance is not accepted at this time, however invoices can be provided to be submitted by the client for out of network reimbursement. A limited number of sliding scale appointments are available.

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