Somatic experiencing practitioners use a framework known as SIBAM (Sensation, Imagery, Behavior, Affect, and Meaning). The SE lens supports a client’s ability to process trauma while involving the body. 

As a therapist utilizing SE – the mind-body relationship is utilized through exploration and exercises to help release body memory that negatively affects a client’s physical and emotional well-being.  Somatic Experiencing supports the regulation of the autonomic nervous system, which underlies aspects of our physical, emotional, and psychological functioning.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a treatment approach that uses low doses of ketamine in combination with therapy for potential treatment-resistant diagnoses like depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic medication and is FDA-approved.  KAP is a cutting-edge treatment that fosters greater insights into oneself and one’s interpersonal relationships to enhance one’s overall sense of well-being. 

I offer psychedelic-assisted therapy in several ways:

• in my office, and you bring the medicine mailed to you or you picked it up from your local pharmacy.
• on telehealth (a blood pressure check is required by the doctor collaborate work with) and you use the medicine mailed to you or you picked up from your local pharmacy.
• in a clinical setting with a physician administering ketamine while I offer psychotherapy 
• in a home setting where I travel to your home, and you use medicine mailed to you or from your local pharmacy
• you use a psychedelic on your own or with another shaman or guide and I help you prepare beforehand and integrate afterward

All of these options include psychotherapy

-before the use of the medicine.  Preparation sessions (or sessions) available through telehealth or in-person

-during (unless you’re choosing to do your medicine session by yourself)

-after the medicine offering integration session (or several) available through telehealth or in-person

-Yoga
-meditation

Therapeutic techniques I include that allow you to:

• Experience a new relationship with your body and the world around you by sensing 
• Get to the root cause of symptoms
• Reframe thought patterns and change habits
• Create new meaning and release old patterns so you can finally let go, move on, and live the life you deserve!

“Soma’ is a Greek word for ‘the living body known from within’, or known to the Self. This ‘knowing’ signifies wholeness. Somatic therapy is an experiential approach.  This mind-body approach allows for the digestion of overwhelm in titrated ways and the integration of trauma. The pain & overwhelm manifested by trauma take us away from our bodies feeling safe or even ours  as a result, there is often a split within ourselves.

Somatic Therapy helps you come back HOME to your body:

 –  Restore the body as a place of safety while helping to expand the capacity to process body (preverbal and   nonverbal – implicit and explicit) memory

–  Metabolize unprocessed emotions

–  Complete (incomplete) stress/protective responses

–  Restore optimal relationship with ourselves and the world around us 

Somatic trauma therapy offers techniques for clients to sense and regulate their physiology and states of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting and co-regulatory relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper into the body, and being given time and space to process the trauma. These somatic techniques unwind trauma and restore well-being.

Recognizes the human potential. It is a non-directive but supportive approach following the client’s lead.  Sessions provide empathy and unconditional positive regard to help facilitate change.  Supporting being one’s true self and leading a fulfilling life.

A holistic approach. Focusing on mental, physical, and spiritual health together, rather than mental health on its own. This allows for one to integrate spiritual growth and psychological healing.  Examples of tools used in sessions are dreamwork, meditation, visualization, yoga therapy, breathwork, and creativity!

A holistic approach to healing using movement to promote cognitive, emotional, social, and physical integration for the individual. A therapeutic embodied, movement-based approach to improve health and well-being.

A form of talk therapy brings together the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind to support a person to feel balanced and whole. 

This approach aims to help people address and resolve past traumas and attachment wounds that stem from childhood.  The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and expressing emotions.  Supporting one in breaking unhealthy patterns and building healthier relationships.

Focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning.  Centering on the individual rather than on their symptoms. Exploring one’s lived experiences honestly, openly, and comprehensively. Through this spontaneous, collaborative process of discovery, one gains a clearer sense of their experiences and the subjective meanings held. The approach emphasizes a person’s capacity to make rational choices and to develop to their maximum potential.

This is designed to recreate real experiences that allow feelings, attitudes, and beliefs in the subconscious,  below the level of conscious experience, to emerge into awareness.  Designed to focus on actual involvement with different types of experiences, including emotional processing, interactions with others, creativity, and reflections on events that go beyond traditional “talk therapy.”

Incorporates writing, drama, dance, movement, painting, and/or music. Exploring one’s responses, reactions, and insights through an art process.

clients are experts on their own experience. Supports examining the stressors that women experience due to biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect one’s mental health. Empowering women by increasing confidence and developing insights about how social roles and forces impact one’s life.

This method assists people in resolving ambivalent feelings and insecurities paving the way to internal motivation, that leads to changed behavior and outcome. Change can be difficult.  This is a practical short-term, empathetic process that supports change.

focuses on one’s existing resources, resilience, and positive qualities, then uses these abilities to improve their quality of life and mindset.  Learning how to apply our strengths, and encourages one to become the hero of one’s own life. 

Empowering one to be an agent of change.

A form of talk therapy that is an evidence-based, goal-oriented psychotherapy that identifies and addresses the connection between a person’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors.

This is an evidence-based approach to treating trauma utilizing psychoeducation.  Then,  supporting in identifying, coping, and learning how to regulate emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.