Services

Individual Therapy

Being human means experiencing various forms of suffering. We carry with us our formative experiences in how we relate to ourselves and the world, creating patterns that can support us, but might also restrict our flourishing. Therapy can bring awareness to the ways in which your inner freedom is limited and how you can create a more authentic, easeful and open-hearted life.

Couples Therapy

Our closest relationships are often the place of our deepest connection, but also pain. Our oldest wounds tend to show up in love, creating stuck patterns of emotional distance, repeated hurts and resentment. Therapy can help you rediscover your vitality, eroticism and open-heartedness. I work with couples of any gender identity, sexuality or relationship structure.

Therapy with Teens

Navigating our teenage years can be challenging. Emotions are intense, and it is often overwhelming to enter the adult world, while navigating friends, school, and home. Therapy can support you develop a stronger and freer sense of self during adolescence, helping you transition into adulthood with more confidence, understanding and joy.

“All flourishing is mutual...we spill over into the world and the world spills over into us.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer,

Braiding Sweetgrass

Therapeutic Approaches

Every client is unique, and so is the way we work together. I tailor our sessions to your individual needs and lived experience, integrating approaches from the following established and evidence-based frameworks:

Our formative experiences and relationships, especially those from our younger years, shape our sense of self, the way we relate to others and our capacity to thrive in life. Together we will bring new insight to what shapes you and your relationships, expanding your inner freedom to choose different responses, cultivate new experiences of your life and develop more enlivening ways of being in connection with yourself and others.

I ground my work in the evolving tradition of Contemporary Relational Psychodynamics.

Relational Psychodynamic
Therapy

Often we become stuck in old patterns of behavior or relating that create pain, even when we intellectually know that we would like to act differently. Together we will decipher the wisdom of your body and what you need for deeper, more sustainable shifts. This work is especially useful when we feel words are not enough to describe our experience, and it opens you to more ease and belonging in your body and life.

I am a certified somatic therapist, and draw on Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Somatic
Therapy

Liberatory
Approach

Our sense of self is shaped by the culture and society we live in. Together we will explore the freedoms you can cultivate, the limitations you need to navigate, and the different forms of belonging you can nourish in order to show up in this beautiful, and sometimes painful world, more fully and authentically.

I am a social anthropologist (MPhil, Cambridge University) in addition to a psychotherapist, and I bring the understanding to my work that we are social, political and cultural beings, in addition to individuals.

Underneath the pain of conflict, recurrent reactivity or a sense of deadness with your partner, we will identify the emotional patterns and unmet needs that fuel your disconnection. Together we will learn how to create the emotional safety needed for greater openness and compassion. This process builds a stronger emotional bond with improved communication, eroticism and love.

I am trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and is my main modality for couples work.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Trauma-informed

When we have experienced trauma in our life, especially during our formative years, it can impact our physiology, our brain functioning, our sense of self and our emotional responses in ways that are overwhelming, confusing and painful. Together we will draw on the latest research so as to support the processing of your traumas in ways that supports your full and embodied thriving.

My trauma work is based on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, as well as the work of Bessel Van der Kolk.

Mindfulness
Based

It is easy to respond automatically to others and the events of our life from stress, fear, and old conditioning. By learning to pay attention to your experience in the present moment, we will support you to develop greater awareness of your thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and patterns of behavior with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. This is the foundation of emotional regulation, self-understanding and lasting change.

I am a certified yoga teacher, have taught meditation and am a practicing Vipassana meditator.