Who Am I?

Bottom-Up Therapy

Instead of thinking through things first we feel through them as away to regulate the body, nervous system, and emotional states. We work on feelings, sensations, and emotions to help influence thought patterns rather than transforming thoughts in order to change or eliminate feelings

Present Moment Awareness

My work often starts in the present moments, present experiences or present challenges and unravels threads into the past instead of diving into a specific point in the past to where we “think” things may stem from. This approach allows for patterns, behaviours, and thoughts to be investigated without assumption and can especially help people with high self-awareness be open to unexpected answers.

Dance Movement Therapy

No dance or movement experience is necessary! Dance therapy heals us through rhythm, expression, vitalizing the body, and relating to yourself and others. We can use gestures to convey feelings instead of having to find the “right” words. Improvisation, intuition, and listening to the body are far more important than technical ability or “good” dancing. Movement therapy can also look like simply talking through things while pacing the room, bouncing up and down, or swaying. It can look like having fidget toys, comfy blankets, and dim lighting. It can look like stress ball floor hockey or basketball. There is no “right” form of movement or expression.

Strength-Based

Let’s tune into the knowledge you already have and find ways to empower it and use it to build healing. We focus on the tools you have innately been given and we find ways to help amplify them, empower them, and express them. Instead of focusing on what “needs to be fixed” we focus on what you have and what we can do to build on those qualities and capacities..

Zen-Informed Therapy

Zen-informed therapy takes the core tenants of Zen Buddhism and applies them to the psychotherapy space. Tenants like mindfulness, non-attachment, acceptance, compassion, non-judgement, and present awareness are emphasized as a way to promote holistic wellbeing and self awareness without the need to “fix” things.