helping you know and trust your innate goodness

Healing is a big process, and it might be different than you expect. Conventional wisdom for working with trauma and relationships might involve a heavy focus on content and learning techniques, which can sometimes lead people to feel guilty or ashamed for not always “following the rules” or “doing it right.” While I will never shy away from offering you information that might help you, I truly believe that just as you are today, there is a force within you that already intrinsically knows how to heal and grow. Our work is to collaborate to create conditions that are safe enough to let this natural and inevitable process take hold, and of course we will celebrate the moments when we see it happen.

We will start by exploring your early relationships and building awareness for the rules you learned to follow to get what you needed. Often, the coping mechanisms that cause problems for us as adults were once effective ways of maintaining connection, security, or any other undeniable human need. As you build reverence and respect for the brilliant and creative ways your younger self managed to survive and make sense of the world around them, a foundation of self-compassion will propel us toward discovering new ways of being with your experiences and new confidence as you witness yourself as capable, strong, and alive.