I am an educator, psychotherapist, and former criminologist with over 25 years of experience teaching and counseling. Before becoming a clinician, I taught high school and college students and I’ve led a bunch of workshops and intensives on emotional intelligence, traumatic healing and other subjects.

My trauma work is individualized. It draws on some of the same principles that inform EMDR while giving us the flexibility to shape your therapeutic path around your particular history, nervous system, and needs.

My approach draws from:

• Trauma and developmental-trauma research
• Memory reconsolidation and emotional learning
• Affective neuroscience
• Somatic and sensorimotor psychotherapy
• Attachment and relational psychology
• Autonomic nervous-system and polyvagal-informed work
• Experiential, parts-oriented, and depth approaches
• Ericksonian clinical hypnosis and therapeutic imagery
• Therapeutic mindfulness, focused attention, and wider-awareness practices
• Evolutionary psychology and human behavioral science

Importantly, I respect lineage. Mine is scattered with relatives and mentors who had profound abilities to connect with animals or people. From animal whisperers to spiritual adepts, they taught me more about healing and change practices than the many years of schooling required for licensure. They embodied balance and active wisdom. They impressed upon me the importance of carrying on the lineage, however nameless it is.

My main goal is to help you cultivate a balanced state and move forward. To help you make peace with loss. To help you dive within and mount that rippling, instinctual spirit in full gallop, so you can remember what the warm wind of freedom feels like in this sprint called life.