Ways We Can Work Together

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working somatically and relationally from a foundation of mindfulness. My work is grounded in compassion and informed by the latest research on attachment, trauma, and neuroscience.

At its core, my approach is about the connection between mind and body. I understand healing as something that involves the whole person, and I draw on how physical and psychological health influence each other. Emotional wounds live not only in our thoughts but in our nervous systems, and lasting healing has to reach both. Somatic and mindfulness-based work builds that mind-body connection directly, easing stress and anxiety, strengthening resilience, and creating new pathways for healing.

I take a pragmatic approach: what actually helps you heal is what matters most. I am less interested in fitting you to a theory than in finding what works for you, and I tailor the work accordingly.

I also think carefully about the language we use around mental health. I often hold a diagnosis less as a disorder and more as a reaction pattern, because symptoms are usually a normal response to what your system has lived through. Seen that way, it would be stranger not to have them. This lens matters: you are not broken, you are responding, and responses can shift. At the same time, a formal diagnosis is often genuinely useful, for insurance and superbills, for accommodations, or simply for your own understanding, and I regularly provide one when it helps.

I work collaboratively, and I believe everything you need is already inside you. Healing, to me, is less about becoming someone new than about uncovering who you really are. My role is to help you access what may feel out of reach right now, your own clarity, resilience, and capacity to heal.

I bring a range of approaches to this work, and I weave them together to fit each person rather than applying one method to everyone. For many clients, these threads combine over time into ongoing therapy. But most of what I offer can also stand on its own, whether you are looking for focused short-term work, a single session, support with a psychedelic experience, or help creating a more intentional home. Wherever you begin, the work meets you there.

I am Master Level trained in Brainspotting by its founder, Dr. David Grand, and I also serve as an assistant trainer and consultant. Brainspotting locates points in your visual field that help access unprocessed trauma held in the subcortical brain, tapping into the body's natural capacity to scan and heal itself. It works directly with the deep brain and body through the autonomic and limbic systems, bypassing conscious, thinking-brain activity to reach the deeper emotional and body-based parts where trauma is stored. When a Brainspot is activated, the deep brain signals that the source of the distress has been found. It is especially effective with trauma, helping identify and heal the underlying wounds that feed anxiety, depression, and other patterns.

Expansion Brainspotting focuses on performance and creativity rather than trauma. It works by finding and strengthening your natural resources, resilience, and capacity, helping dissolve creative and career blocks and open up expansive thinking. Many clients find that confidence and creativity flow more freely once inner obstacles are cleared, whether the goal is public speaking, artistic work, or performance in business and other areas.

I am certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and I also work with Attachment-Focused EMDR and EMDR 2.0. EMDR is an extensively researched therapy proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic. It works by activating a stuck memory while introducing bilateral stimulation, which allows the memory to reprocess and connect with more adaptive information, so it loses its charge and no longer drives the same reactions. Attachment-Focused EMDR extends this work to early relational wounds and developmental trauma. EMDR 2.0 draws on working memory theory, deliberately engaging more of the mind during processing so that difficult memories desensitize more quickly and fully.

I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) through the IFS Institute, having completed all three levels of their training along with specialized work in areas like addiction and eating disorders. IFS is a powerful, evidence-based model built on the idea that the mind is naturally made up of many parts, and that this multiplicity is a good thing. Each part carries valuable qualities, and beneath them all is a core Self that knows how to heal. The work is about helping those parts unburden and come into harmony, so you can feel more integrated and whole. In IFS, all parts are welcome. It has been shown to help with depression, anxiety, panic, and trauma, as well as improving overall functioning and well-being.

As an integrative therapist, I tailor the work to each person rather than fitting everyone to a single method, blending approaches as they serve you.

Much of my work is somatic and nervous-system based, including polyvagal-informed work, nervous system regulation, titration, pendulation, grounding, meditation, and breathwork. Part of this is learning to meet your emotions differently, to treat them as visitors passing through rather than states you are stuck in, so they can move and shift instead of taking hold.

I also draw on attachment-based and relational approaches, Attachment-Based Psychodynamic Theory, narrative therapy, art therapy, DBT, and CBT. My understanding of trauma is grounded in the research of Bessel van der Kolk, MD.

Alongside these, I use expressive and intention-setting tools, drawing on visualization, somatic imagery, and creative practices to help you connect with and move toward the future you envision.

Some of the deepest healing happens between people. I love working with couples, and it's some of my favorite and most meaningful work. Whether you're navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, longing to feel close again, or simply wanting to understand each other better, I help partners move out of the painful patterns that keep them stuck and back toward connection.

This work isn't only for romantic partners. I also work with other important relationships, adult siblings, a parent and an adult child, close friends, or any two people who want to understand each other better and repair what feels strained. Whatever the relationship, if it matters to you, it's worth tending.

In this work, I draw on several approaches that complement each other:

Together, these give us both the practical skills and the deeper emotional, internal, and physiological understanding to help your relationship genuinely change, not just for a week, but in lasting ways.

I have a special love for working with therapists, healers, coaches, energy workers, bodyworkers, psychedelic facilitators, and others in the helping and healing professions. If you spend your days holding space for other people, you know how much it asks of you, and how rare it is to have a place where you can set that role down and be fully held yourself.

I understand the particular challenges of this work: the emotional weight you carry, the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue, the way your own needs can quietly go last. I also understand the vulnerability of being a practitioner who needs support, and the wish to work with someone who truly gets the field you're in.

Whether you're navigating your own trauma, tending to your nervous system, working through what comes up in your practice, or simply needing a space that's just for you, I'm honored to support the people who support everyone else. You deserve the same depth of care you give so freely to others.

Whether you are preparing for your first experience or making sense of one that left you with more questions than answers, this work meets you where you are. People come to me before and after ketamine treatments, legal retreats, ceremonial settings, and personal journeys, looking for support that honors the depth of what they are moving through. Preparation and integration help you meet the experience with clarity and carry it forward.

Psychedelic experiences can be powerful catalysts for healing, growth, and self-discovery. They can also be complex, unexpected, and hard to put into words. Thoughtful preparation helps you approach an experience with greater intention. Integration is what turns the insights and shifts that emerge into real change.

I offer individualized preparation and integration therapy grounded in trauma-informed care, somatic and mindfulness-based practices, and a deep understanding of expanded states of consciousness. Preparation may include clarifying intentions, exploring fears or expectations, strengthening internal resources, and building grounding and nervous system regulation practices. Integration focuses on processing the emotions, memories, insights, or challenges that arise, and translating them into lasting shifts in your relationships, patterns, choices, and daily life.

A profound experience does not automatically create lasting transformation. Integration creates space to revisit what emerged, notice what may be shifting, and intentionally nurture those changes over time. Sometimes that means making concrete changes. Other times it means sitting with uncertainty, listening more closely to what is emerging, and letting meaning unfold. My role is to hold a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where all parts of your experience are welcome.

Psychedelic facilitation is a deeply relational practice rooted in safety, trust, attunement, and presence. Expanded states of consciousness can open the door to profound emotions, memories, and insights, and the person sitting alongside you matters. My approach is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and respect for each person's unique inner process.

I am a Certified Psychedelic Facilitator through the SoundMind Institute, a leading program known for its emphasis on ethics, equity, and cultural sensitivity. SoundMind is a state-approved training program: it was approved by the Oregon Health Authority for Oregon Psilocybin Services, and its curriculum meets the training standards required for psilocybin facilitator licensure in Colorado. My training spanned 14 months of intensive interdisciplinary work followed by a week-long experiential practicum, integrating clinical, somatic, contemplative, and ceremonial perspectives. It covered trauma-informed care, ethics, psychodynamic and somatic approaches, cultural humility, preparation and integration, and supporting the complex experiences that can emerge in expanded states.

My facilitation experience spans clinical research, ketamine-assisted work, and international retreat settings. I serve as a facilitator in FDA-regulated clinical trials investigating DMT for treatment-resistant depression, and I facilitate group psilocybin experiences at retreats in Portugal. Working across these very different environments has taught me to meet people wherever they are while staying grounded in the same core principles: safety, deep presence, compassion, and respect for the intelligence and individuality of each person's experience.

The field of psychedelic therapy is growing rapidly, and with that growth come complex clinical, ethical, and relational questions that rarely have simple answers. I facilitate consultation groups for therapists and psychedelic facilitators, creating a collaborative space to explore the nuances of the work, deepen clinical understanding, and navigate the challenges that arise when supporting clients before and after psychedelic experiences. I also mentor therapists individually, offering closer, more tailored support as they build their confidence and skill in this work.

I provide talks and professional education on psychedelic therapy, preparation and integration, facilitation, and the evolving role of mental health professionals in psychedelic care. My goal is to bring curiosity, nuance, and honest conversation to this emerging field, helping clinicians and facilitators approach psychedelic work with greater confidence, thoughtfulness, and respect for its complexity.

Food and mood are connected. Small, sustainable shifts in how you eat can support clarity, steady energy, and emotional balance. My approach is practical and compassionate, focused on helping you build meals that are nutrient-dense, satisfying, and realistic for a busy life.

I hold two advanced nutrition credentials. I completed the certificate program offered by the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies in partnership with eCornell. The program is built on decades of research into how diet influences long-term health, covering nutrition science, chronic disease risk and reversal, and how to read and interpret the research itself. It is taught by more than twenty physicians, scientists, and registered dietitians, and offers continuing education credit for health professionals.

I am also a Certified Nutritarian Coach, a credential developed by Joel Fuhrman, MD, a board-certified family physician and researcher. This approach centers on nutrient density: choosing foods that deliver the most vitamins, minerals, and protective phytonutrients per calorie. One of its most useful teaching tools is G-BOMBS, an easy daily framework built around greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, and seeds, the foods most strongly linked in research to long-term health and disease protection.

There is a real, well-documented connection between the gut and the brain. The two are in constant communication, and what you eat shapes that conversation in ways that can influence mood, focus, and resilience over time.

For some clients, nutrition becomes a focused part of our work together, mapping simple upgrades to the foods they already enjoy, building balanced plates for steady energy, and tracking what genuinely helps. For others, it lives quietly inside our therapy sessions, woven in as we notice how food, mood, and energy move together. Sometimes the work is hands-on and practical; other times it is simply learning the concepts and carrying them into daily life. Wherever you start, it is collaborative, grounded in your real rhythms, and never about restriction or willpower.

The things we own take up more than physical space. Every object carries a thread of attention, and even the items tucked into drawers or hidden in the back of a closet stay quietly present in the body and mind. Our systems know they are there. Over time, that accumulated weight can leave us feeling heavy, scattered, or stuck without quite knowing why.

This work is not about owning as little as possible. It is about intention: surrounding yourself only with what is useful, meaningful, or genuinely loved, so your space reflects how you actually want to live. Often the things we cling to are tied to the very things that keep us stuck: an old version of ourselves, a past we haven't set down, a fear of what the future holds. When you clear what is in the way, you reveal the life you have always wanted.

What sets this work apart is what happens beneath the surface. Letting go is rarely just logistical. Objects hold memories, identities, grief, and fear, and parting with them can bring up far more than expected. Because I am also a trauma therapist, I can support you through that emotional terrain directly. Using Brainspotting, IFS, EMDR, and other approaches, we can process the grief, attachment, and stored energy that surface as you release what you have been holding onto, both the physical items and the feelings bound up in them. Letting go of the object and letting go of what it held in your body become part of the same process.

For some clients, this becomes hands-on work in their own space, moving through the process together, category by category, at a pace that feels manageable rather than overwhelming. For others, it lives inside our sessions as I teach the concepts and principles they can carry home and use on their own. Sometimes it is deep emotional work; other times it is simply learning a new way to relate to what you own. However we approach it, you come away with more than an organized home. You come away lighter, clearer, and no longer carrying what you no longer need.