Counseling that integrates relational, somatic, and depth-oriented work

Many forms of therapy focus mainly on insight or conversation. This work engages three levels of change at the same time:

regulating the nervous system and working with the body
understanding deeper relational patterns and meaning
opening emotional awareness and compassion toward your experience

People come to therapy carrying many different kinds of struggles. The experiences below reflect some of the patterns and challenges I often work with in therapy.

Experiences this work can support

You survived experiences others may never fully understand, but your body still carries the imprint of them.
Through somatic therapy, parts work, and depth psychology, we help calm the nervous system and gently release patterns that have been held for years.
Together, we make space for the strength beneath the survival so you can stop bracing and start living.
You may feel constantly on edge or completely shut down. Small things feel enormous, and the big things feel impossible.
Through mindfulness-based somatic therapy and emotion-focused work, we help your nervous system come back into balance.
Clarity returns. Energy begins to come back. Life starts to feel possible again.
Your mind moves quickly, your body struggles to slow down, and you’re constantly trying to keep everything together.
We use body-based regulation, nervous system awareness, and practical structure to support clarity and rhythm.
Instead of fighting your system, you learn how to work with it and feel less burnt out by your own mind.

You may have spent years managing other people’s emotions just to feel safe. Reading the room before reading yourself. Giving too much. Explaining away red flags. Staying quiet to keep the peace.
But that kind of safety is exhausting and it isn’t real connection.
Through parts work, attachment repair, and nervous system healing, we work to shift these patterns so you no longer have to abandon yourself to stay close to others.
Connection becomes something you experience not something you perform.
Whether it’s a death, a breakup, or the quiet unraveling of who you once were, it can be hard to carry.
Through somatic tracking and depth-oriented grief work, we process what is ending and make space for what is emerging.
Even when the future feels unclear, you don’t have to feel lost inside it.
You may be outgrowing the roles you were expected to play and standing at the edge of discovering who you really are.
Through depth psychology and culturally sensitive work, we explore inherited expectations, loyalty binds, and identity conflicts.
This is where voice, self-trust, and a more authentic direction begin to emerge.

“The healing process is like a spiral. You come back to things, again and again, but each time with a deeper understanding.”

Marion Woodman

Approaches used in this work

You don’t need to know the names of these approaches.
What matters is feeling safe enough to explore what’s beneath the surface.

We move at your pace. I prioritize safety, consent, and trust so you can explore what’s hard without feeling overwhelmed.
What it helps with:
- Complex or developmental trauma
- Emotional dysregulation or shutdown
- Fear of being re-traumatized in therapy
- Feeling unsafe or on edge, even when “nothing’s wrong”
We tune into the body, not just the story, so healing can happen where trauma lives: in the nervous system.
What it helps with:
- Emotional overwhelm, chronic tension, or body-based anxiety
- Feeling disconnected or “numb”
- Shutdown, panic, or hypervigilance
- Learning to feel safe in your own skin
Instead of pushing emotions away or analyzing them endlessly, we build the capacity to feel without being flooded.

My work is informed by body-based trauma approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (developed by Pat Ogden), attachment theory, and depth-oriented therapy.
We use gentle, embodied awareness to study your patterns with curiosity. Through mindful noticing, new possibilities emerge.
I don’t just listen. I track your tone, body language, and shifts in energy.
What it helps with:
- Feeling unseen or misunderstood in past therapy or relationships
- Difficulty trusting others or letting your guard down
- Fear of being “too much” or “not enough”
- Healing attachment wounds in a safe, reparative relationship
- Learning how to connect without losing yourself

For clients who want to go deeper, we explore unconscious patterns, symbolic imagery, and forgotten parts of self, not to analyze you, but to reconnect you with what’s wise and whole beneath the pain.
We work directly with emotion, not just around it because feeling is what leads to change, not just thinking about it.
We explore the different “parts” of you especially the ones that protect or feel stuck.
What it helps with:
- Inner conflict and self-criticism
- Shame, guilt, or perfectionism
- Repetitive emotional patterns or reactive states
- Trauma carried by younger parts
We honor your cultural identity and inherited stories, while making space for who you are now.
What it helps with:
- Guilt, loyalty binds, or ancestral burdens
- Feeling stuck between cultures or family roles
- Healing trauma passed down through generations
- Reclaiming your voice, values, and truth

What sessions are like

First Session

Your first session is an intentional conversation. I’ll learn about you while observing how you think, feel, and respond to the world. It’s common to feel nervous at first. Often, by the end of our time together, people experience a sense of relief or calm simply from being in a space where it’s safe to be themselves.
Continued Sessions

As our work continues, sessions may involve different approaches depending on what seems most helpful in the moment. Sometimes we focus on understanding patterns in relationships or emotional reactions. At other times we may slow down and notice what is happening in the body and nervous system in real time. This can include somatic awareness, mindfulness-based approaches such as Hakomi, or parts-oriented work that helps us understand the protective strategies that developed over time.
Exploring Deeper Layers

My work draws from relational therapy, somatic psychology, Internal Family Systems, and Jungian depth psychology. Together these perspectives help us explore both the psychological patterns shaping your experience and the deeper meaning that can emerge as those patterns become clearer.
At the heart of this work is a deep curiosity about the human experience in all its complexity. Therapy becomes a space to approach difficult experiences with honesty and compassion, and to explore both the challenging and meaningful parts of being human.