My approach to the work

I work from the understanding that trauma is not a life sentence. It is something that happened, or kept happening, that the nervous system and psyche have been trying to make sense of ever since. My role is not to fix or pathologize your responses, but to create the conditions in which your own healing can unfold.

I trained in Somatic Experiencing because I found that talk therapy alone often couldn't reach the places where suffering lives: in the body, in the nervous system, in the wordless places. SE offers a gentle, titrated entry point that is grounded in the body's innate wisdom.

I am also influenced by the Internal Family Systems model and Jungian psychology. Specifically, I believe that the psyche is always moving toward wholeness, and that our symptoms and struggles are often the psyche's way of insisting on that journey. Every person who comes to me is, in some sense, a hero of their own story — in the middle of a crossing, often in the dark, often unsure of what lies ahead. My job is to be a steady, skilled presence for that journey.