LCSW, 20 years of experience
I am a long time insight meditator who has committed their life to finding ways to solve the problem of human suffering through gentle skills teaching. The practices I use with my clients are the same ones I use in my own life. I believe in developing self compassion and skillful communication to improve harmony and insight into our inner worlds and with our relationships with others.
For first sessions I like to get some basic information around where you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to be. Then begin to flesh out some goals for work.
I ask the deeper questions and model skills for being concrete about exploring my clients real lived experiences. Looking at how we can rely on the basics such as naming emotions, thoughts, needs, body experiences, as powerful tools for gaining insight and being skillful with regards to our motivations and deepest intentions.
I work best with clients that want to do deeper work. I frequently work with others in the helping professions who want to build more skills with regard to gaining insight, improving communication both internally and interpersonally, healing attachment wounds, and refine their inner harmony, self esteem and confidence.
Nonreactive compassionate self observation. Increase life satisfaction through cultivating inner peace and happiness. I have been practicing vipassana/insight meditation for 15 years, intensively for several of these years.
Using the understanding of problematic schemas/maps developed in early life to more skillfully meet our needs and heal attachment wounds.
Understanding how harmony in our parts lead to balanced experience of a whole self . Fostering confidence and security internally in order to increase internal function and balance. Working with grief and reparenting. Increasing confidence and self esteem.
Using methods such as Hakomi, internal family systems and schema therapy in order to develop insight into and create internal safe spaces. Often reparenting the younger versions of ourselves to heal attachment wounds.
Relationship enhancement therapy, nonviolent communication, skills based, psychoeducational coaching to improve skillfulness interpersonally using communication of feelings, needs, values, developing deep empathy and listening.