Find your way back to connection

Yes. I work with adults seeking individual therapy as well as couples looking for help with their relationship. My current clients range in age from 18 to in their eighties! It’s never too late begin this journey.

Yes. I provide secure telehealth therapy for clients located in Vermont and California.

My work integrates nearly 25 years of clinical experience with specialized training in attachment theory, mindfulness, somatic and parts-work approaches. More specifically, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Attachment-focused EMDR and IFS. What the research shows us is that meaningful and lasting change happens through a combination of insight and felt experience in the here and now. And of course what enables the success of any technique or approach is the safety and fit of the therapeutic container.

Many of my clients come to me after working with other therapists. Sometimes therapy provides understanding but doesn't create the deeper shifts people are longing for. Together, we'll work experientially to uncover the patterns beneath your struggles and create new ways of relating to yourself and others.

Insight is important, but insight alone doesn't always create change. Many of my clients have spent years learning about themselves through books, podcasts, spiritual practices, and previous therapy. Yet they still find themselves repeating familiar patterns. Lasting transformation often requires more than understanding. It requires new experiences of safety, connection, and healing that can be felt in the body, not just understood in the mind.

Somatic psychotherapy, or body-centered talk therapy, is a bottom-up therapeutic approach where the body leads the way. It differs from top-down cognitive approaches that emphasize the thinking processes as the doorway to meaningful change. Rather than relying solely on traditional talk therapy or trying to logically explain a problem, somatic therapy guides clients to experience their present-moment reality and bodily sensations in real-time. This process helps us to become more conscious of implicit memories, or blueprints, that inform our habitual strategies and action tendencies. Through following these physical sensations we are able to access underlying unconscious beliefs and have new and healing experiences of ourselves and others. 

Somatic psychotherapy aims to support nervous system regulation, using body-based interventions to widen the window of tolerance enabling us to more effectively manage emotions, think clearly, and respond rationally to everyday stress without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down.