Essays, Videos & Mind-Body Practices
Welcome!
I create these essays and videos to share the joy and fulfillment I have experienced as a long-time somatic therapist, and to help you do the same. To help you feel more rooted in yourself as a therapist so that you can bring more of your gifts and strengths to help your clients.
I am a raving fan of somatic work and how bottom-up approaches offer seemingly magic change for clients and a practice-changing experience for therapists.
I want to get therapy out of the box, bring it alive and help therapists understand that somatic therapy is not just a bunch of tricks or practices – it’s really about bringing all of yourself into the work and helping your clients do the same.
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Mindfulness & Somatic Practices (for Therapists & Clients)
Additional mind-body practices can be found here.
Resilient Presence in Distressing Times
In times when therapists feel the same stress their clients carry, an orienting and centering practice can help us rebuild resilience together.
Grounding & Centering Before Client Sessions
Watch now (2 mins) | A Mindfulness Practice to Help You Transition Between Clients
Pause, Reflect, Respond
Use this mindfulness practice right after sessions to stay more connected to yourself, feel more centered, and move through your day with more intention and clarity. Pause, Reflect, Respond!
About Somatic Therapy | Info & Reflections
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.
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.
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...
Somatic Therapy Skills & Concepts
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”.
Therapist Resilience & Musings
Good Things and Hard Things
Making space for all of life’s experiences.
Be Cautious of “Normal”
Moving beyond acute grief and into “normal”, I have become aware of the importance of paying attention to how my patterns and habits do and do not serve me, and how this is the work I do with my clients.
Looking for Light in the Dark
Reflecting on loss at the solstice, I look forward to riding into the returning light. As the days grow longer, and I bask in the sun, I want to remember that I am just a passenger on this planet, subject to changing seasons and unpredictable life experiences.
Grief & Loss
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Telehealth & Somatic Therapy
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