In addition to supporting access to more awareness of thoughts and emotions through talk therapy, I am trained in several modalities that help you tune into and increase awareness of your body, including your nervous system, connect with inner resources, process trauma that may be held in the body, and explore patterns in relationships and attachment. I integrate these modalities throughout therapy in a way that responds to your goals and priorities, working collaboratively to support the changes you want to make and to nurture more peace, calm, and joy in your life. Below are some of the approaches I draw from:
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body‑based, nervous‑system‑centered approach to trauma healing that focuses on how stress and overwhelm get stored in the body rather than only the story of what happened. Rather than reliving trauma, we pay gentle attention to internal sensations and blocked survival responses, helping the nervous system slow down, release stuck energy, and come to more balance. In the safety of an attuned therapeutic relationship, this work supports you in reconnecting with your body, building regulation and resilience, and moving from feeling frozen or overwhelmed toward grounded presence, ease, and a deeper sense of self‑connection. Learn more about Somatic Experiencing. In addition to SE training, I studied with Kathy Kain to learn Somatic Skills for Online therapists. Learn more about Kathy Kain’s teachings.
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) is a deeply relational, attachment-informed therapy that meets you in the present moment, with your body, your emotions, and the patterns that have shaped your experience. Rather than only talking about what happened, we track what shows up here and now in your felt body and relationships so you can process, transform, and grow from it with real-time safety, connection, and support. At its heart, AEDP is about “undoing aloneness”, helping you experience that you don’t have to face your pain by yourself, and supporting the nervous system in healing through connection, attunement, and emotional presence. Learn more about AEDP.
Brainspotting is a body-based approach that helps access and process trauma, emotional pain, and patterns stored deep in the brain and nervous system, especially the experiences that words alone haven’t been able to reach. Within a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, it supports your system in gently locating, processing, and releasing what it’s been carrying so you don’t have to hold it alone. Learn more about Brainspotting.
CRM (Comprehensive Resource Model) is a body‑based, nervous‑system‑focused approach to trauma healing. It uses eye positions, breath, body awareness, attachment work, and internal resources to create safety so we can actually feel and release what’s been held in the body without getting overwhelmed. It helps you honor the ways you’ve survived while gently reconnecting mind, body, and spirit, supporting grounded presence, meaning, and the capacity to embody love and wholeness. Learn more about CRM.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a nervous‑system‑based trauma therapy that helps the brain finish what was interrupted in difficult experiences. Using bilateral stimulation, you’re supported in processing memories and sensations that have stayed activated, helping them lose their emotional intensity so you can move forward with more ease, connection, and regulation. My training with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness brings a mindfulness‑informed, trauma‑sensitive, and relational approach to this work. Learn more about EMDR.
PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) is a couples therapy approach that meets you and your partner in the moment, tracking what is happening in your bodies, emotions, nervous systems, and attachment needs during connection and conflict. Rather than focusing on who is right or wrong, PACT helps you notice how you respond to each other, how stress shows up, and how your nervous systems interact. By increasing safety and co-regulation, this work can support you in creating a more secure, supportive relationship where you feel seen, understood, and connected, and where you can navigate challenges together with greater trust, presence, and resilience. Learn more about PACT.
Many people associate trauma with events like war, violence, abuse, debilitating accidents, or natural disasters. Stress and trauma can also be held in the body, including the nervous system, from direct and indirect systemic threat and harm, stemming from racism, xenophobia, migration and immigration challenges, classism, ableism, neuroconformity, sanism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fatphobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, being pushed or forced into assimilation, intergenerational trauma, as well as through vicarious trauma (indirect exposure to violence) whether through a personal experience shared by someone, or constant access to news of mass atrocities.
My practice is informed by a commitment to social justice and a deep understanding of how oppression, marginalization, and relational and systemic harm affect our bodies, minds, and sense of safety. Together, we can hold space for these experiences safely and in ways that feel aligned with you. Using approaches that integrate body/nervous system awareness, and relational attunement, we can create room to be with feelings as well as space to allow them to move through, process what has been held in the body, build resilience, and find more peace, calm, and joy in ways that feel resonant and true for you, with all of these realities acknowledged and held in mind.