LONG Description
In my practice, I combine psychotherapy with Soul Lightening Acupressure, a comprehensive form of gentle touch acupressure/energy work, to address issues at their root, clear stress and trauma, and provide lasting healing. Our bodies hold our stress, trauma, and also wisdom and by working directly with the body we can clear old patterns, connect with that wisdom, and become our authentic selves.
Your life is a journey of growth and healing and I help you tune into what needs support at this time and guide you through clearing and transforming it. Your symptoms (like pain, anxiety, relationship patterns) are signals alerting you to what needs attention. We start a session with a mindfulness meditation in my tranquil garden, then we talk or use art or the sand tray to discover what is arising in you that needs healing and begin to make connections. You then receive gentle touch acupressure during which your energy will flow more clearly, old stress and patterns can dissolve, and new insights and connects arise. Clients express feeling lighter, calmer, and more grounded after sessions. Clients often connect with their own spirituality and Higher Helpers and Guides for support and guidance and strengthen their connections with their authentic selves, their inner wisdom, with Nature, and with their purpose in this lifetime.
I have been a therapist for 20 years and I also draw on my experience with mindfulness meditation, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, family systems therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work, narrative therapy, art, play and sand tray therapy. My office is situated in my healing garden where the windchimes, fountain, birds, and bees, all support your healing experience.
I see adults for 80 minute sessions. This length of session allows us to connect with an issue and fully process it within the session. Clients express amazement at how much growth and healing they can do with a shorter overall duration of therapy when compared to talk therapy alone. With children I use play therapy and the sand tray as well as acupressure for 55 minute sessions. With young children I can work with the child as well as their adult. This work is especially suited to children as a gentle way to help them clear stress and trauma to let their own lights shine through.
I specialize in working with Highly Sensitive People. I am an HSP myself and can support you in finding the benefits in this gift as well as navigating its challenges. I also specialize in helping people navigate and thrive around the emotionally immature people (often narcissists) in their lives. I love working with moms during pregnancy/postpartum and beyond, and other therapists and healers.
I do not take insurance at this time but can provide a superbill for reimbursement.
