About my practice
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What you practice is what you have.
—Zen saying
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The heart of my practice, and my passion, is in helping clients resource, reprocess and resolve their trauma so that they can live lives of intention, connection, vitality, hope and meaning.
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I am a somatically & psychodynamically-trained, trauma & attachment-informed, emotionally-focused, mindfulness-based, poly-friendly, pro-choice, queer-allied, antiracist, client-centered & licensed psychotherapist curious about anything and everything being evoked within you & between the world and you. I am especially interested in how our internal and external experience is shaped and impacted by family, personality and culture, in exploring the places where our personal and collective conditioning intersect and overlap, and in how the sociopolitical matrix we find ourselves located and positioned in shapes, impacts and functions in us personally, professionally, romantically, familially, socially, collectively & otherwise.
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My practice integrates the following orientations & approaches:
PISAB: The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
AEDP: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
MBSR: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Moderation Management & Harm Reduction
Myers-Briggs 16 Personality Types
Karuna Training & the Five Wisdom Energies (secular contemplative Buddhist psychology)
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Couples approaches
EFT: Emotionally Focused Therapy
IFIO: Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFS/parts work for couples)