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I’m so honored you have chosen to be here and are taking steps toward your mental health journey. I look forward to interacting with you!

Therapeutic Specialties

Family and Relationship Trauma

You may have experienced a horrible “shock trauma” such as a sudden death or one time abuse, you may have multiple small events and hurts that have piled up to create complex trauma, or you may have a combination of the two. Whatever your experience, I have worked with clients on processing and healing from these traumatic events. To do so, I use Somatic and Lifespan Integration therapy to provide a holistic, mind-body healing approach. You can read more about these therapeutic approaches in my blog.
Anxiety Management

Everyone experiences anxiety throughout their lifetime. Many people experience anxiety more often than not and it can be crippling with the intrusive thoughts and physical symptoms. I work with clients using Mindfulness and Somatic therapies. These interventions can help provide client’s with practical coping skills as well as deeper healing and regulation of the nervous system to reduce overall anxiety.
Religious Trauma

This work is important for a variety of people. You may be committed to remaining in your religion and faith tradition but still need to process harm that has occurred within the context of that religion. You may be wanting and planning to leave your religious community but are struggling with fear and guilt over the decision. You may have already left your religious community and need to process the harm and trauma of the past. I use my history and upbringing in the religious community as well as knowledge of trauma to help clients process and heal from these experiences.
Embodiment and Mind-Body Healing

Often we are living disconnected from our bodies. This can be caused by traumatic experiences, feeling overwhelmed by stress or emotions, or distrust of the body. Using somatic work, mindfulness, and embodiment practices, I help clients to reconnect with or engage with their bodies in a meaningful way for the first time. Creating a safe space, fostering connection and understanding, and promoting mental, emotional, and even physical healing.

Why “Selkie Soul Therapy?”

Selkies are creatures of myth that swim in the ocean as seals then come up to land and shed their seal skins to reveal their human female forms to dance and frolic in the moonlight.

The selkie represents the wild and domestic self. The shadow and seen self. The unseen and seen forms of ourselves. We need both. We need to both be apart of and engage in our wild forms and we also need to come up to land every once in a while and participate in the goings on in the world.

In most of these tales however, there is someone who steals the seal skin of a selkie away and hides it so that she must stay above ground and be separated from her wild self.

My goal in my practice is to help all people reconnect with and join the different fragmentations of self together. There is a lot of chaos after trauma, grief, loss, anxiety, depression, and chronic health issues. We can bring together a cohesive sense of self using Lifespan Integration therapy. We can gather the pieces together. I have seen this happen with many of my clients over the years and it is beautiful and magical every time.