as my personal and professional experience has found these methods of work to be most transformational, most able to bring about significant, lasting change. That said, throughout my career I have immersed myself in learning and clinical experience with many other theoretical frameworks (i.e., cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, existential) and their associated clinical tools. What I have come to understand is that they each offer valuable and interrelated pathways for identifying and releasing conditioned patterns and the art of counseling and guidance is intuiting when one approach will be most helpful for a particular person, at a particular time. I am not a loyalist to a theoretical framework; I am a loyalist to my clients and to what will best serve you at any given time in our work together.

I strongly encourage all of my clients to try somatic work

at some point in our time together, as many of our conditioned patterns are partially or fully unconscious, and thus live in our body, not our mind. Somatic work allows you to access these levels of conditioning in a way that is simply not possible with talking and intellectual-focused methods and allows you the fullest access to your inner wisdom and truest self. The specific somatic modality I am certified in is called The Hakomi Method.