About Me
My passion is to empower others to engage with, foster compassion for, and honor their authentic self. I have been dedicated to this sacred journey throughout my career as a wilderness therapy guide in the Southwestern high desert, an interdisciplinary educator in experiential and alternative high schools throughout the country, an adult education coordinator for a substance use disorder recovery center in the Mission and Haight neighborhoods of San Francisco, and as a yoga teacher of all ages. I am honored to continue and deepen this path as a somatic psychotherapist.
I earned a Master’s of Science in Counseling with a Specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Prescott College, and emphasized somatic psychology and bodymind therapy throughout my graduate studies. My theoretical orientation is humanistic and is rooted in somatic psychology; predominantly Contemporary Reichian Therapy, which integrates the classical work of Wilhelm Reich, MD, as well as Gestalt therapy and contemporary understandings of human development, attachment theory, emotional functioning, and neuroscience. My work is to facilitate an organic and individual process, a metamorphosis, occurring in the client; to support the client in contacting the core self, and thus to live in a more engaged, authentic, and present way. Through compassionate presence, deep attention, skillful listening, and somatic psychotherapy, I guide the client in attuning with their essential being and becoming more emotionally functional in the here and now.
I earned a Master’s of Science in Counseling with a Specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Prescott College, and emphasized somatic psychology and bodymind therapy throughout my graduate studies. My theoretical orientation is humanistic and is rooted in somatic psychology; predominantly Contemporary Reichian Therapy, which integrates the classical work of Wilhelm Reich, MD, as well as Gestalt therapy and contemporary understandings of human development, attachment theory, emotional functioning, and neuroscience. My work is to facilitate an organic and individual process, a metamorphosis, occurring in the client; to support the client in contacting the core self, and thus to live in a more engaged, authentic, and present way. Through compassionate presence, deep attention, skillful listening, and somatic psychotherapy, I guide the client in attuning with their essential being and becoming more emotionally functional in the here and now.
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