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Integrated Psychotherapy

My work is informed by the understanding that my clients have every capacity within themselves needed to proceed safely in moving through the issues they face. My clients will always lead ‘where to go’ or ‘what to do’ next. We will explore together where and how the need to have safety, connection, and meaning has guided your life in the past and see what helps now. This takes an inherent strength and confidence that can be accessed and developed – new choices can be made and solidified. These choices restore vitality and contact with the inherent goodness which we can experience ever more strongly and which can become more consistently available to each of us.

*The great value of focusing more attention on the present moment experience including body-based sensations, emotional and other physical patterns that co-arise with our thoughts, beliefs and ideas, is that these other parts of our psyche faithfully and accurately access what we really want to know about ourselves. Important insights emerge and empowering embodied experiences can occur. The process makes time and space for such fuller experience, so deeper understandings can naturally emerge. This integrated approach is the heart of somatic counseling. More fully accessing these modes of awareness expand our perceptions so that we perceive and trust the deeper truths of who we are – through which each client learns how to heal their particular injuries and pain, each client experiences the universal positivity of life that is our birthright.