How We Work

The work is about returning to yourself.

Most of us spend years developing patterns to survive: to be loved, to stay safe, to avoid pain. These patterns worked once, and served an important function to protect us. But as adults, they can become a cage.

In our work together, we look at what you've been carrying, where it came from, and we look at developing more choices of what’s possible. We work with your body, not just your thoughts, because trauma doesn't live only in your mind, it also lives in your nervous system—in held breath, in chronic tension, in the impulse to flee, or freeze, or fight.

What this actually looks like:

We talk, yes. But we also pay attention to what's happening in your body right now. When your chest tightens. When your breath gets shallow. When you want to look away. These aren't problems—they're information. They're showing us where the work needs to happen.

I work primarily with two approaches that inform everything I do:

NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model)
This approach helps us identify the survival patterns you developed early in life—the ways you learned to disconnect from yourself to stay safe or get your needs met. We look at how those patterns show up now: in your relationships, in your work, in how you talk to yourself. And we look at what else might be possible for you.

Core Energetics
This is body-centered work. We use breath, movement, and awareness to access what's been held in your body. The tension you carry isn't just stress—it's frozen energy, unfinished responses, emotions that never had permission to move through you. This work helps you complete what got interrupted and reclaim the energy that's been locked up.

The pace is yours.
Some sessions are quiet and reflective. Others are more active and cathartic. I follow where you need to go. There's no formula, no program. Just presence, skill, and commitment to what's real.

What changes:
You may start to see more options and possibilities for how you show up—with yourself, and in relationship. You may reconnect with your body as a source of wisdom rather than threat. You may find and befriend your true "no" and true "yes." You may become more yourself and less what you had to be.