Specialties
Anxiety
Life Transitions
Trauma and PTSD
I help adults and teens heal and build lasting understanding, support, encouragement, and self balancing through friendly, collaborative conversations with humor, reflection, insights, and practical tools. I believe people are naturally wanting to self organize, and tend to avoid labels. We do friendly, deep and friendly healing conversations, CBT, art as therapy, humor, mindfulness, and optional heart feedback or sound meditations that work as well as medication in some studies. We can also use a brain health assessment from a leading neurology clinic to know how to help you balance your brain with insights or mindfulness. We can also track your progress. Clients learn skills, sometimes instead of pills, where we can, and I am also trained in family insight, birth order, internal family systems, and other things.
The techniques and tools we use help heal focus and relaxation, improving sleep, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, autism, Tinnitus, traumatic brain injuries, and other challenges. I share tools such as brain-balancing sound therapies, heart-rate biofeedback that teaches calm attention, like personalized relaxation and visualization processes. The sound therapies I can share are shown to improve attention and memory 11-29% in healthy adults, lower anxiety 86% (58% more than music), lower chronic pain 77%, help people fall asleep faster, lower Tinnitus, and are shown in new small studies to remove memory blocking plaque in brains with Dementia. I have taught hospital staff and patients as a trainer and therapist.
You keep the mindfulness tools long-term. Conversations can be relaxed with reflection, insight, curiosity, and light humor. I believe therapy is most effective when it combines connection, empathy, curiosity, and respect. I am also trained in mindfulness, CBT, art as therapy, deeper dynamics including birth order, and use internal family system work with other ways of viewing things.