“Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, ‘Yes. This is what happened. And I will choose how the story ends.’” – Brené Brown
Individual Therapy
Providing assistance and guidance to help resolve personal, social, or psychological distress through collaboration – using active and supportive listening, empathic care, and a touch of humor. I pull from an eclectic mix of techniques and theories such as: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gestalt Therapy, Ego States Therapy, Family Systems Theory, Strengths Theory, and Traditional Talk Therapy.
Trauma Informed Therapy
I work from a trauma informed perspective. Specifically, I use Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and EMDR.
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy is a nontraditional form of hypnotherapy. Its unique process provides a specialized therapeutic experience; allowing healing on a much deeper level through guided relaxation and age regression. It helps facilitate healing more rapidly than traditional talk therapy by going straight to the source of the trauma, negative feelings, or unhealthy behaviors, by accessing the subconscious mind. It helps a person open up their heart to new conclusions about themselves and the world around them, facilitating a transformation that leaves one feeling lighter and freer. It brings clarity and self acceptance through healing of your inner child. People emerge from these sessions feeling free of their inner judgement, shame, guilt, anger, grief, jealousy, abandonment. loneliness, and anxiety. I have personally experienced this transformation myself. It is powerful and inspiring. I feel blessed and privileged to be able to help others on their own heart-centered journey.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a technique that uses bilateral stimulation (both left and right brain) to desensitize stored trauma within our minds and bodies. After desensitizing, EMDR allows you to reprocess trauma so that it can be stored in more adaptive ways. This allows clients to decrease the symptoms, often caused by traumatic experiences (Shapiro, 1987). I have completed the basic training and consultation requirements for EMDR, a therapy approach that is research based and proven to be effective for the treatment of PTSD and anxiety. I often use EMDR with my clients to help them heal from past abuse and trauma.
