Current services include individual psychotherapy and somatic therapy for adults via phone, video, or in-person in South Minneapolis. Focus areas include:
- Personal & Relational Growth
- Depression & Anxiety
- Addiction & Recovery
- Stress & Trauma
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, or “talk therapy,” approaches health & healing via the cortical brain systems (language, conscious thought, explicit memory). Psychotherapy focuses on how thoughts influence emotions and behaviors (“top‐down” approach) and relies on insight and behavior change.
Somatic therapy
Somatic therapy, or body-centered therapy, utilizes the subcortical brain systems (body sensations, unconscious processes, implicit memory) to support safety and re-regulation of the nervous system. Somatic therapy focuses on how the body influences thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (“bottom-up” approach) and relies on body awareness and physiological regulation.
Approach
My approach is non-diagnostic and integrative, meaning that it combines methods and ideas from different schools of thought. It is based on the concept that no singular theoretical framework can be effective with all concerns, in all contexts, with all people.
With this underlying belief, I have focused on gaining continual awareness, knowledge, and skills regarding trauma. This focus has resulted in the use of both “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches, and my primary therapeutic method is EMDR.