Have you spent years in talk therapy and reached a point where you understand your history perfectly, yet you still feel a persistent sense of being overwhelmed, hyper-vigilant, or shut down?
This disconnect occurs because challenging experiences are not just stored in your thoughts; they are held as a persistent biological impression within your system. Understanding your story is a necessary start, but recovery requires resolving the internal patterns that keep your past in the present. By working at the intersection of where your history meets your current physiological state, I help you update how your system responds to the world today.
Navigating the Modern Environment
In our current high-stakes, digital world, a sensitized nervous system rarely has the opportunity to settle. My work specifically addresses how constant overstimulation exacerbates these internal patterns. The goal is to move beyond protective stagnation and help you cultivate a steady, resilient presence that can navigate both your internal world and the demands of your professional life with clarity and efficiency.
A Layered Approach
I use a suite of evidence-based, neurobiologically-informed modalities tailored to your specific recovery goals. Each approach serves a distinct functional purpose in resolving how your system holds the past.
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These studies have consistently found that EMDR effectively decreases/ eliminates the symptoms of PTSD for the majority of clients, as well as alleviating other associated symptoms such as anxiety.
Through EMDR, negative emotions, feelings and behaviors caused by unresolved earlier experiences can be reprocessed and disturbing material can be seen in a new and less distressing way. EMDR is founded on the premise that each person has both an innate tendency to move toward health and wholeness and the inner capacity to achieve it.
THE FLASH TECHNIQUE
The Flash Technique (FT) is a recently developed therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories. FT is a minimally intrusive option that does not require clients to consciously engage with the traumatic memory. This allows for processing traumatic memories without feeling distress.
FT may be used as an adjunctive intervention to make a variety of trauma-informed psychotherapies quicker and better tolerated.
SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-centered psychotherapy that is particularly helpful in working with the effects of trauma and abuse, emotional pain, and limiting belief systems. Unconscious attitudes are brought to consciousness where they can be examined, understood, and changed. This gentle therapy helps clients to process thoughts, emotions and body-based experiences related to trauma in a safe and mindful manner. By learning to pay close attention to internal experience, people can decrease symptoms and reclaim authority over their lives.
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING (SE)
The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other psychological and physical trauma-related health problems. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.