Individual & couples therapy
For individuals, couples, and relationships seeking a deeper way forward.
Your body tells one story.
Your mind tells another.
I listen to both at the same time and that’s how things start to change.
What Brings People Here
Most people find me because they’ve been managing their pain - pushing through, performing willingness, going from provider to provider. None of it reached them deeply enough. Because no one stopped to hear the story underneath.
Maybe it was illness that rewrote everything you thought you knew. A loss you can’t metabolize. Years of caretaking that left you hollowed out. A birth that didn’t go as planned. A relationship where you stopped being able to feel what you feel. Or something older - something your body has been carrying so long you forgot it was there.
You’ve been getting through. But somewhere along the way, you lost access to yourself.
What Happens When You Work With Me?
We go back and forth between your story and your body. Your body shows me where it locked down. Your story tells me why. Together we build a conversation between the two -until your body starts to trust that someone is listening. Until it can begin to let go.
This isn’t about fixing. It’s not about willpower. It’s about developing empathy - deep compassion - toward the parts of you that locked up to survive. That’s where healing starts.
You don’t have to move to do this work. Some people lie still. Some people talk. Some people cry. Some people find that movement, breath, gesture, or creative process become essential parts of their healing. We follow what your body needs - not a protocol.
Why These Modalities?
I practice IFS-informed somatic psychotherapy. That means I work with the parts of you - the protectors, the managers, the exiles - through the body, not just through conversation.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) because your inner world is not one voice. It’s many. And those parts have been working hard - often against each other - to keep you safe. When we listen to them with curiosity instead of judgment, they don’t have to fight so hard.
Body-Mind Centering® because the body is not a metaphor.
It’s not a container for your emotions. It has its own intelligence - cellular, skeletal, organ-level knowing that predates language. I studied how infants, mothers, and people with serious illnesses recovered their sense of joy and embodiment. That research lives in every session.
Somatic psychotherapy because talk therapy alone can’t reach what the body is holding. Your body locked itself down to survive. The pain came after. When you finally hear its story, shift happens.
Individuals
Many of the people who come to me have been carrying something for a long time—trauma, grief, illness, caregiving, life transitions, relationship challenges, or simply the feeling that they no longer recognize themselves.
My work is informed by somatic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Body-Mind Centering®, attachment theory, and developmental movement. These help us understand both the story you carry and the way your body has learned to hold it, creating space for greater self-understanding, resilience, and connection.
If you are tired of managing alone and ready to listen more deeply to yourself, I invite you to reach out.
couples
I help couples slow down and understand what is happening beneath the conflict, distance, or repetitive patterns that leave them feeling disconnected.
My understanding of relationships is shaped by Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), somatic psychotherapy, attachment theory, and the developmental model from the Couples Institute. Together, these perspectives help couples understand both the patterns they are caught in and the developmental challenges their relationship is being asked to grow through, creating new possibilities for connection, trust, and intimacy.
If your relationship is hurting and you are ready to devote time to its healing and growth, I invite you to reach out.
Practical Information
I see individuals weekly or biweekly.
Sessions are 50 minutes.
Location options:
In person at my Portland, Oregon office.
Virtual psychotherapy across Oregon and Texas.
Somatic Movement Therapy and Whole Body Recovery Coaching virtually everywhere.
Licensed in Oregon (LPC #C9542) and Texas (LPC #84460).
If this is you, I got you.
I also offer therapy intensives
three to six hours in a day, for THOSE who want to go deep fast.
Intensives condense months of therapy into days.
Focused immersive support for humans moving through trauma, grief, burnout, caregiving fatigue, major life transitions, or loss of self.
go deeper in community
The Whole Soma Integration Lab
Online only
A monthly membership offering two live two-hour somatic movement classes each month and access to an online portal with all recordings.
This is where many women begin.
A way to experience the work, find your footing, and discover what becomes possible when you show up for yourself consistently.
EMBODY : The Art of Trusting Yourself
Online & in person immersion
A Year Long Whole Body Recovery Immersion. Somatic healing and embodiment for women.
For women who have spent years caring for others, navigating loss, illness, trauma, or major life, transitions and are ready to stop abandoning themselves.