Essays, Videos & Mind-Body Practices
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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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Listening Inward Prompts #2: The Cost of Over-Efforting
Prompts for cultivating creativity and resilience. For therapists (and other humans).
My Go To Movement Sequence for Regulation
Move from agitated to energized, from flat to engaged. A practice for therapists and their clients (and anyone!)
Meeting Client Defenses Differently
A mindbody practice to help therapists feel more effective when faced with defenses and protection.
Listening Inward Prompts #1: An Invitation to Take Some Time and Space for Yourself.
Prompts for cultivating creativity and resilience. For therapists (and other humans).
The Broken Egg
Somatic therapy invites us to hold possibility, drop what no longer serves, and discover what emerges when we’re willing to get messy and creative.
Connecting To Our Own Bodies
The more we cultivate our own embodied awareness, the more confidently and compassionately we can support our clients in doing the same.
I’m a Somatic Therapist. And an Intellectualizer.
I’m a somatic therapist and an intellectualizer—I can hide in my head with the best of them, but I’m learning to come back to my body, my emotions, and my full self.
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.
Presence or Proficiency
When we stop trying to ‘fix’ our clients and instead return to presence, we access the clarity, creativity, and compassion that actually move therapy forward.”