Want Support on Your Journey?

So, you want to develop a healthier, deeper, and more empowering connection with yourself and the people around you.

But in order to do that, you realize you may need to:

✨ Break some painful patterns occurring in your life

✨ Understand the role trauma and your attachment wounds may play in your current day life

✨ Learn how to deal with triggers, regulate emotions, and feel them to heal them

✨ Discover how to feel more secure in yourself so you can feel more secure with others

Lastly, you want support from someone who can hold space like a therapist and challenge you like a coach at the same time.

If this sounds like you, keep reading :)

I believe in therapy. I'm in therapy. I train with therapists. I am in community with social workers, and I abide by the same "Do no harm" vow of ethics that therapists do even though I don't have to.

However, not being a licensed therapist gives me more freedom to fill the gaps that traditional therapy lacks.

Let's go over it.

Similarities to Therapy:

✨ My #1 priority is to provide an emotionally safe environment. This means I have a disciplined practice of bringing non-judgment, validation, and empathy to every interaction.

✨ I practice confidentiality and care deeply about your privacy.

✨ I train and pull from approaches that are popular and effective among therapists. (See FAQ's if you want to know learn more about my training and modalities)

✨ I run a trauma-informed and, as-needed, trauma-focused practice.

✨ I won't tell you how to live your life. That's for you to decide.

Differences From Therapy:

✨ With clear love & compassion I will challenge you more directly than a traditional therapist usually will.

This is the #1 thing my clients tell me they appreciate about my work.

We love our therapists for holding a safe space for us, but we also don't want to find ourselves venting about the same thing year after year.

We want to make progress.

We all have blind spots. If we didn't we wouldn't struggle so much to find clarity and solve our problems. So a big part of my job is helping you see what you're not seeing instead of letting you spin in circles about it waiting for you to figure it out.

✨ I'm not in charge. I'm your partner.

I believe the therapeutic power structure is inherently flawed.

If the fundamental purpose of my role is to help you feel more empowered within your life, it makes sense to me to not give you a ceiling in your choices by exercising power over you.

This doesn't mean that my role doesn't have impact or influence. It does, and I take that seriously and hold myself accountable to that. But this is why I prefer a partnership style dynamic. Where I'm beside you in the passenger seat, not over you or in the driver's seat, on your journey.

✨ You have access to me between sessions.

All of my clients have access to me in a messaging channel for "back pocket support" (boundaries included and will be explained in our initial call).

Simply put, you get extra coaching & support between calls.

Having this next level of accessibility can help you see progress faster and feel more supported between calls. It also gives us a more fluid relationship which many clients appreciate.

Note: It is not required to use this channel and I do not bother clients between calls. This channel is for you to reach me should you decide you'd like the support while out of session. If you don't, I let you breathe and trust you'll hit me up when you're ready! Many clients find comfort in knowing the extra channel is there even if they don't use it often and that's okay with me.

Is this one of those $10,000 programs?

No.

Working with me is not cheap but it's more comparable to therapy at $250 paid monthly for 2 calls per month + back pocket support.

What are the modalities you mentioned earlier?

I personally believe that while trauma lives in the body and we need to "feel it to heal it", we have our minds for a reason, and learning new tools and skills is also helpful for growth.

I use a mixture of mind/body/spirit modalities that add up to a more holistic approach overall. Main modalities includes but not limited to:

• Somatic Parts Work inspired largely by Internal Family Systems branch of parts work. I also incorporating a somatic approach to feel within the body. I was trained through The Embody Lab.
  • If you've never heard of parts work, think "inner child" or "reparenting" type of work but more well-rounded.
  • "Somatic" work incorporates the body, allowing you to express and regulate your emotions physically while you're processing cognitively.
• I learned Somatic Embodiment & Regulation practices from Linda Thai. She's brilliant and I highly recommend learning from her if you're studying trauma healing and Somatic work.
• Meditation and mindfulness are huge in my work, especially where Self-compassion and emotional regulation are involved.
• Otherwise my approach is inspired by a mixture of psychoanalysis, CBT and DBT style solutions and models.

Why can't I just book a single call?

I work with people who are aware that they've likely spent 20+ years practicing the habits they want to break. That won't happen in a single call.

Change takes ongoing practice. The kind of support I offer is practice-based to accommodate that truth, so I prefer to work with clients over time.

With that being said, I do get some clients who communicate wanting to start on a "trial" basis to really see if it's the right fit before deciding whether they're committed, and I fully support that.

Further, ALL of my clients can terminate the relationship at any time without worrying about me trying to change their mind. This is your decision. I believe that you're capable of making that decision for yourself, and respect your choice. I will never, ever try to pressure you to continue service if you've decided you'd prefer to stop.

What format is this program?

Bi-weekly calls on Zoom with back pocket support between calls. I'll also usually offer a homework assignment at the end of the call so you have some clear points of action between calls that will help you make tangible changes.

For any other questions:

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Remember, the discovery call is a no-cost, no-pressure call just to see if we're a good fit.