I use a mindfulness-informed, body-oriented approach to talk therapy. My presence in the room with you is warm, compassionate, and gentle yet direct. Depending on what feels right for you, I may incorporate breathwork, meditation, visualization, yoga poses, movement, or self touch into our sessions. These practices are always optional and consent-based; meeting you where you’re at and working with whatever is showing up in the moment are central tenets of my work as a therapist.

I often begin 50-minute sessions with a 5-minute grounding body scan meditation or breathwork practice. Throughout our ensuing conversation, I will periodically invite you to notice how your body is feeling and to share your observations so as to increase present-moment awareness and create opportunities to physically deepen, release, or shift what you are feeling.

My work as a somatic psychotherapist is informed by my yoga teaching background as well as two year-long, Buddhist-based contemplative psychotherapy trainings I have completed through the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. My eclectic approach also incorporates parts work and aspects of Internal Family Systems Therapy, or IFS, which I have studied through multiple workshops, including one with IFS’s creator, Richard Schwartz. If you're looking for a way to feel at home in your body and at peace in the world (whether or not you've been in therapy, meditated, or done yoga before), my approach to therapy may work for you. Please contact me for a free phone consultation to learn more.