I work with clients globally in the trauma modality of Somatic Experiencing and psychotherapy clients in the state of California.

How I Work

We practice noticing what's here, in sensation, emotion, and thought, through the lens of Somatic Experiencing, with kindness instead of judgment. 

It's a skill that grows, not a test to pass.

Mindful presence

Your body has been making meaning your whole life. We get curious about what it says, and where it got stuck.

Curious about meaning 

Dream, image, story, and intuition are invited in. 

Image and Imagination 

Your own embodied yes and no. As you feel more, your boundaries and values come clear. We work with that.






Fierce compassion

The Space Between Us

Somatic and imaginal work touch something older than any one of us: what Jung called the collective unconscious, Sheldrake called morphic resonance, and Buber called I-Thou. 

We probably can't live in that space all the time (lest we become spiritual bypassers), and the vessels that carry us there are hard to put into words: Sometimes therapy can be one. Sometimes it's a forest, a piece of music, or a stranger at the grocery store. 

I'm dedicated to tending the conditions where that space can open.

A Way Forward

Our achievement-driven culture teaches us to compete, over- or under-give, and intimacy gets severed, first with ourselves, then with each other and the living world. 

But we can shift, not through hearts wide open all the time, but through inner connection and interdependence with others. 

When we turn toward what we once believed was shameful or unhealable, we learn to accept and do harm less, because we can accept and care for what once seemed a threat. We build a well of security inside to return to again and again.

What I Do Now

I'm a licensed psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and PhD researcher at the University of Essex.

My research asks how the senses and the imaginal can help repair attachment, and what attachment theory becomes when it's embodied and interdependent, including each other and the other-than-human world.

I see individuals and couples, teach groups, research, consult and write. 

And I'm honored to be on this adventure with you.

"The doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door; if you have an old, old story, that is a door.

If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés