"When one tugs on a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
—John Muir
Couples Counseling
Each of us comes to relationship with our own personal history, pain, fear, and expectations. Learning to navigate our own history while also incorporating the history of another can often feel tricky, and sometimes even next to impossible. Navigating intimacy may need help. In couples counseling, I seek to help clients uncover their own individual attachment styles and to understand how these affect their connection with each other. We will work together to heal past hurts, to understand what healthy boundaries are, and to begin the process of open and clear communication, which enables both individuals to effectively make known their wants and needs. I would like to help couples grow in intimacy, trust, and a mutual love and respect for one another.
Individual Counseling
Many of us become stuck in old patterns of thinking and behavior that we may not understand. We can often get stuck in past pain or trauma that seemingly feels impossible to get through. My individual counseling sessions are a collaborative effort with my clients to access and understand fears, emotions, and behavior patterns that may seem to keep us from being able to move forward. Our work together will focus on healing the past and finding peace in the present moment to enable you to live a life that’s aware and awake. I seek to help my clients make their invisible thinking visible and therefore, manageable.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that allows people to heal from the emotional symptoms caused by painful life experiences. The mind can heal from psychological trauma, just like the body recovers from physical trauma. If you cut your hand, your body will work to heal the wound. But if another injury or a foreign object irritates the wound, it will fester and cause more pain. Once that block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes—the brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward health. If this system is imbalanced or blocked by a disturbing event, that emotional wound continues to fester and can cause intense suffering. When that block is removed, healing resumes. Through the use of EMDR therapy, I seek to help my clients activate their natural healing processes.