20 years of experience therapeutically helping adults and couples in crisis. I am a Marriage and Family therapist since 2007 and licensed in the states of Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and Utah. I am a trauma informed somatic based therapist with training in EMDR and Polyvagal theory and practice. I received my MA in Counseling Psychology with Expressive Arts in 2002 from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
In most sessions I use polyvagal theory and practices to assist you in locating what you are experiencing emotionally and in your nervous system. In the first sessions I begin teaching you about how your body stores your stress and difficult memories. I introduce EMDR and guide you with resourcing exercises to create states of calm inside. We deepen our work as you feel centered and calm.
I work with individuals and couples who have lived distressed lives and struggle with anxiety and depression. In our beginning sessions we dive into the struggles by learning strategies to calm so connection with others can be made. We collaborate on identifying what techniques work for you and create a plan to help you stabilize yourself while using sessions to work through trauma.
