About My Clients
Carries chronic tension, pain, or holding patterns and senses there is more beneath the surface than symptom relief can reach. Is already in therapy and ready to bring the body into the room — to feel, not just understand. Is a practitioner or healer seeking your own depth work — exploring how you live in your body, not just how you work with others. Is moving through a life transition — a loss, a threshold, an ending or beginning — and wants to meet it with the whole of yourself.
My Background and Approach
How We Work Together This is not conventional talk therapy. While language matters, the body is the primary text — a living record of experience, adaptation, and longing. Our work begins there. Somatic Psychotherapy Body-centered psychological work that attends to sensation, breath, movement, and the nervous system as pathways into deeper understanding. We work with what the body is already saying — not to override it, but to listen more carefully. Relational Presence The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space of contact and repair. Safety, attunement, and consent are foundational — not incidental — to the work. We bring curiosity and care to whatever arises, including the parts of you that have learned to protect, hide, or brace. Integration When appropriate, bodywork and somatic touch may be woven into the therapeutic process — not as a separate service, but as an integrative dimension of the work. Structure and emotion, body and psyche, are understood as one continuous
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe the body is always telling the truth — and that some of what we carry shows up in tension, fatigue, or a persistent sense of being stuck before it ever becomes words. My work brings together somatic (body-based) therapy and structural bodywork to help people understand themselves more fully, not just think about their problems differently. I work well with students and young adults navigating stress, anxiety, identity, and the pressures of academic and professional life. If you've tried talk therapy and felt like something was missing, or if you're new to therapy and not sure where to start, somatic work offers a different entry point — one that takes your physical experience seriously. I am committed to creating space that is genuinely affirming for LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent people, and those in kink, polyamorous, or non-traditional relationships. I don't treat these as edge cases — they're central to who I work with and how I show up. I also welcome clients who bri