
Attachment Based EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing [EMDR] is a client-centered modality that emphasizes a reparative and integrated therapeutic relationship. It incorporates bilateral stimulation of the brain through the use of vibrating sensors, sound, or light to track visually while processing and releasing trauma and/or symptoms and blocks in one’s life. EMDR has been extensively researched and is a successful evidence-based practice effective for issues including but not limited to PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Phobias, Low Self Esteem, Creative and Emotional Blocks, and Relationship Difficulties. The technique frees people from disturbing images, body sensations, debilitating emotions, and restrictive beliefs. This healing modality tends to be more rapid than traditional therapy and often invokes an experience of joy, openness, and deep connection to self and others.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting, as conceptualized by Dr. David Grand, is a powerful therapeutic approach that leverages the brain's natural ability to process and heal from trauma, stress, and other challenges by identifying points in the visual field that correlate with emotional or somatic experiences. By maintaining focus on these "brainspots" while attuned to the internal experience, deeper access to the subcortical brain, where trauma and memories are often stored, is gained. This method bypasses cognitive defenses and activates the body's innate self-healing mechanisms, allowing deep access to process, held emotions. and release to support and achieve profound transformation..
Emotional Transformation Therapy
Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT), developed by Dr. Steven Vazquez, is an innovative form of psychotherapy that uses precise visual and light stimulation to evoke rapid emotional shifts and profound healing. ETT harnesses the interconnectedness of emotional states, brain activity, and light frequencies to target and resolve deeply rooted emotional experiences. Carefully calibrated visual experiences, guide the therapeutic process by activating neural pathways linked to specific emotions, enabling the resolution of trauma, depression, anxiety, and other psychological challenges. ETT accesses the brain's natural capacity for self-regulation and transformation, offering a potent and effective path to emotional well-being.
Hakomi
The Hakomi method draws from the core concepts of mind-body integration, gentleness, nonviolence, compassion, and mindfulness rooted in Buddhism and Taoism. Clients are supported with tuning into the subtle sensations of the body and watching as stories, images, sensations, and information emerges from the subconscious and conscious mind. This non-linear reveal supports not only a deeper understanding of the complex presenting issues, but also fosters a change of core self-limiting beliefs by releasing the discord from the nervous system and muscle memory.
AEDP
Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy integrates Neuroscience, Attachment Theory, Emotion Theory, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychotherapy. An essential aspect of this modality pertains to the importance of undoing aloneness through the therapeutic connection and through in-depth processing of emotional and relational experiences. AEDP supports the client with building on strengths, fostering new healing experiences, and developing resources, resilience, and a renewed excitement toward life.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is insight-oriented, depth therapy that focuses on how subconscious behavior manifests in your present life. Through fostering self-awareness and an authentic understanding of the past’s influence on the present, unresolved conflicts and symptoms are able to truly heal. This shift lends way to a transformation in the choices you make, the way you feel about your present life, and what you are able to manifest in the here and now.
Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Parts Work
Transpersonal psychotherapy is a holistic approach to mental health that integrates spiritual, psychological, and physical aspects of human experience, recognizing that healing extends beyond the personal self. It emphasizes growth, self-actualization, and connection to a greater sense of meaning or the transcendent. Parts work, often a component of transpersonal psychotherapy, involves engaging with the distinct "parts" or subpersonalities within the psyche. These parts can represent conflicting desires, roles, or emotional states, such as an inner critic or a wounded child. By fostering compassionate dialogue and integration between these parts, transpersonal psychotherapy helps clients access their inner wisdom, transcend limiting patterns, and align with their core self, paving the way for profound transformation and inner harmony.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Based on the principles of non-judgement and compassion, Mindfulness Practice supports the ability to see patterns of the mind more clearly and learn how to recognize when moods and sensations in the body shift and negative patterns emerge. By doing so, it promotes competency in shifting self-limiting beliefs and patterns, grounding in the present moment, and obtaining resilience for future triggers. This practice supports the capacity to open authentically to even painful emotions and watch them come and go without battling them. When discord can be held with awareness and tenderheartedness, an opportunity to see from a different perspective eclectically emerges.
Clinical Herbalist in Training
The gut-brain connection is a profound interplay between the digestive system and the nervous system, influencing both physical and mental health. As someone on the path to becoming a clinical herbalist, this connection enriches my work as a psychotherapist by providing a holistic framework for understanding the mind-body relationship. Herbal medicine offers tools to support gut health, which directly impacts mood regulation, stress responses, and overall emotional well-being. By integrating knowledge of the gut microbiome and its influence on neurotransmitter production with therapeutic techniques, I can address my clients' needs more comprehensively, fostering deeper healing and resilience. This integrative approach empowers clients to achieve balance not just mentally but physically as well.