Throughout each of our lives we face many different challenges, frustrations, and triumphs.  Whether you are struggling with trauma, depression and anxiety, adjusting to wanted or unwanted life transitions, challenging relationships, concerns related to intimacy and sexual identity, or grief and loss, therapy can be a powerful tool to support you in accessing your own deep experiences of strength, healing, and growth.  Therapy with me focuses on tapping into your inner sources of wisdom and insight while creating a space of deep connection and healing.  Together we will identify the habits and experiences that don’t support the life you want to lead now.  As a somatic psychotherapist my approach is deeply rooted in recognizing and inviting the wisdom of the body to support and guide a deep and lasting healing process.

I received my Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the Somatic Department at Naropa University with a dual concentration in Dance/Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy.  I also have additional training in trauma therapy, social justice counseling, Synergetic Play Therapy, EMDR, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, strengths and solutions based approaches, as well as completing a year long certificate program in Equine Assisted Mental Health.  In sessions I use a variety of different approaches to meet my clients where you are and provide an experience tailored to your specific needs and therapeutic goals that is firmly rooted in honoring your own racial, cultural, ethnic, gender, spiritual, and sexual identities.  

Sessions with me may consist primarily of talk therapy, exploring movement and sensation, play, other creative modes of expression, developing mindful awareness, working with horses, walking in nature, or some combination of all of the above.  I believe that every approach to therapy must be rooted in sound theory and integrate aspects of neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma informed approaches into all my work. 

My path to becoming a therapist was a bit long and winding through 15 years of working in nonprofits and community organizations.  I did a little of a lot of things over that decade and half from answering crisis calls and working with victims of violence to leading support groups for teen mothers, creating harm reduction programs in schools, organizing fundraisers, writing grants, and everything in between before completing a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling so I could focus on the part of the job I love the most- working directly people and creating relationships that allow healing to happen.

I specifically became a Somatic Therapist because I believe that our bodies hold untapped wisdom and potential and that incorporating movement and embodied awareness in therapy creates the most sustainable and long term healing.