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4 Ways to Work with Boundaries Somatically

4 Ways to Work with Boundaries Somatically

Working with boundaries somatically can be a powerful way to help clients develop an embodied and felt experience of their own space and limits. Here are four exercises that help clients develop boundaries and take them into “real life”.

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Why I Love Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Why I Love Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Learn why I love Sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP) and how it is a somatic therapy approach that can create profound healing, change and transformation. It’s done this for both my therapy practice and for me personally.

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About Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

About Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Learn about Sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP) a somatic therapy approached based in current understandings of trauma, attachment, and neuroscience. For me, SP feels nearly magical in how it helps people to heal and change.

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One Wild and Precious Life

One Wild and Precious Life

This is the story of my encounter with an Antillean crested hummingbird. Read how it inspired me to invite therapists to be present in our own wild and precious lives.

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The Importance of Connection and Collaboration as Therapists

The Importance of Connection and Collaboration as Therapists

Growth and development occur in relationship. We are not born alone, and we don’t grow alone.  Human development takes place in relationship, and so does professional development.  Far too many therapists feel alone and have the sense of working in isolation – even...

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Barely have ONE Minute to Invest in Yourself?  The Importance of Therapist Self-Nurturing in the Pandemic

Barely have ONE Minute to Invest in Yourself? The Importance of Therapist Self-Nurturing in the Pandemic

The COVID pandemic no longer feels brand new. It’s not as chaotic and disruptive as it was in past months. However, it’s an ongoing challenge full of uncertainty with no real end in sight.  It’s a Time for Extra Care. Doing therapy well requires that therapists’ own well-being is in good shape. This is true under the best of circumstances, but becomes even more so in difficult times.

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Why Teletherapy is Draining and How to Make it Better

Why Teletherapy is Draining and How to Make it Better

Teletherapy can be exhausting – and it’s not just screen time. In the context of COVID19 it’s also major change + brand new habits + upheaval + a whole lotta stress!!!!!

If you are feeling drained or exhausted by the move to telehealth as a therapist, you are not alone! Learn why teletherapy is feeling so draining and get tips for how to make it better.

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Getting Started with Teletherapy in a Time of Crisis

Getting Started with Teletherapy in a Time of Crisis

If adding telehealth sessions to your therapy practice is new to you, this is a big step. Adapting your practice can be a huge source of pressure.  

You are doing important work in this world. Get some clarity on basic steps to take to get yourself set-up while remembering that taking care of yourself is crucial in this process.

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How My Farmshare Made Me a Better Therapist

How My Farmshare Made Me a Better Therapist

Joining a CSA farm share this summer brought unexpected gifts for me. In this post I talk about how my farm share experience helped me to practice what I preach. Writing this story reminded me of the importance of nurturing myself deeply and how critical that is to...

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A Gift of Self-Care for Therapists

A Gift of Self-Care for Therapists

Therapists need self-care, not just for personal wellbeing, but to nurture and sustain professional functioning. The tool of your trade as a therapist is you. So making sure that you maintain your own well being isn’t a luxury, it’s crucial to your ability to do your...

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Is Your Job Impossible?

Is Your Job Impossible?

COVID PANDEMIC NOTE The ongoing global pandemic continues to create tremendous disruption and stress for therapists and clients alike.  While this post was written pre-pandemic and has a “regular life” tone, we need to pay as much - if not more - attention to taking...

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The Movie Inside Out is a Great Resource for Therapists

The Movie Inside Out is a Great Resource for Therapists

Wo – Pixar just made a movie about the inner emotional life of a child! I love it!  I love that the topics of mind and memory and pre-adolescent development and the role of parenting made their way into a popular animated movie, "Inside Out". And I love the movie too....

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Why You Need a Hammock in Your Office

Why You Need a Hammock in Your Office

You might be thinking – Are you kidding? I’m lucky if I get a bathroom break. I previously wrote a post, Appreciation for the Important Work that You Do.   I opened with the acknowledgment that therapy, while fulfilling and meaningful, is really challenging and hard...

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Adventures in Communication

Adventures in Communication

Oh the adventures... I am high above the Atlantic Ocean returning home from a trip to Spain that was full of adventure and experience, novelty and love - we went for my brother's wedding! Around every corner was also a bit of mishap, the kind you might expect when...

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Appreciation for the important work you do

Appreciation for the important work you do

You do work that matters. You do work that matters and makes a difference.  Sometimes this is really clear and at other times you just might not feel it. I am taking a moment to notice what you do and to encourage you to join me. Therapy and healing work is hard. ...

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The Importance of Nurturing Ourselves as Therapists

The Importance of Nurturing Ourselves as Therapists

Nurturing Ourselves: Reflections from my Keynote Presentation. I had the honor of being the keynote presenter for the annual conference of the New England chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association (NEADTA) this March (2015). Here I share some of my reflections...

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