My Approach To Therapy

  • Holistic

  • Trauma-informed

  • Client-centered

  • Strengths-based

I strive to create safer, braver spaces for you to cultivate compassion for yourself and your intimate partners. Together, we can develop skills to approach the many stresses and traumas of life with increased integrity, curiosity, and resilience. 

I think and work holistically, recognizing the intersections of the body, psyche, spiritual, social, and relational. 

I am client-centered and strengths-based in my approach. You are the expert on your life and situation; I am an active witness who holds a compassionate mirror.  

To that end, my therapy practice is deeply shaped by commitments to the following frameworks:  

  • Intersectionality 

  • Honoring the many aspects of your identity  

  • Disability Justice

  • Anti-racism 

  • Decolonization

  • Transformational justice which involves facilitating accountability

Therapeutic Methods

I view psychotherapy as a vessel for the processes of healing and wholeness. My practice is grounded in both emotion focused approaches and the principles of Buddhist Psychology, prioritizing cultivating deep compassion for self and others. 

Somatic therapy provides a holistic approach to regulating the nervous system. It starts from the assumption that emotions live in our body and provides a holistic approach to regulating the nervous system. We need to become aware of our bodies and our feelings in order to regulate them. 

Somatic practices can be individual or relational. My approach is grounded in twenty years of research, training, and practice in Yoga and Tantric philosophy, Vajrayana Buddhism, various forms of intentional and therapeutic dance, contemplative practices, and trauma-informed, liberatory somatic practices.

Schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation.

Image: Dabls Mbad’s African Bead Museum, Detroit, Michigan.