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Often, healing calls for more than talk therapy alone. True transformation engages the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. My approach is grounded in integrative, personalized psychotherapy. Rather than applying the same treatment model to every client, I draw from evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), somatic interventions, and creative therapies, based on each individual's unique goals, strengths, preferences, and clinical needs. This personalized approach is supported by emerging research suggesting that tailoring psychotherapy to the individual can improve treatment outcomes compared with standardized approaches alone.
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SE is a body-focused approach that helps you release trauma stored in the body. Complicated birth, difficult pregnancies, trauma, and grief is often stored in implicit (unconscious) memory as opposed to explicit (conscious) memory. Certain attachments, experiences, scents, feelings, and images can activate those implicitly stored traumatic memories and cause the body to react in a way that is incongruent with who you are. In this case, healing does not occur through intellectualization, rather, through somatic experience and energetic release. Considered to be a ‘bottom- up’ method, SE helps heal the mind through the body.
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Shadow Work is a process of exploring and understanding the parts of ourselves we usually hide or deny to others and often to ourselves. Anger, fear, jealousy, desires, insecurity, longing, tenderness; the feelings that feel most embarrassing, overwhelming, potent, and potentially life-altering are often the ones we go through great lengths to suppress. The aim is not to rid ourselves of these parts, rather, to recognize and integrate them so they no longer control us unconsciously. This deeply transformative, sometimes mystical work is based on Jungian Therapy. It helps bring hidden parts of yourself into awareness, heal old patterns, and become a more integrated and authentic version of yourself.
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Reiki, and energy healing more broadly, recognizes that our state of being can be influenced by the subtle energies flowing through the body. When this flow becomes blocked, depleted, or misaligned, it can show up as stress, emotional unrest, looping thoughts, and/or physical discomfort. Energy healing works by gently restoring balance to the whole mind-body-spirit system.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40148929/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41183719/
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When clients are interested, I may incorporate astrological symbolism as a reflective tool within a broader Jungian and depth psychology framework. Rather than using astrology as a diagnostic or predictive method, I use it to facilitate conversations about personality, values, life themes, archetypes, and meaning-making. This use is informed by Jungian theory and symbolic psychology rather than by clinical outcome research.
Additional Reading:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12517113/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5922.12394?
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EFT is a type of talk therapy that helps you understand, process, and work with emotion. Instead of ignoring your feelings, this work teaches you how to identify what you’re sensing, how to explore the root cause of a feeling, and develop language around an emotional experience so you can better understand and communicate with loved ones.
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IPT is a directive therapeutic modality that focuses on relationships and social connections as a way to improve emotional well-being. IPT is particularly helpful during the perinatal phase, when the most important thing for mothers and caregivers is receiving support from the people around you. With IPT, you learn strategies for handling challenges and communication techniques that translate directly into change. This is quick, direct, action oriented.
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CBT is considered to be the gold standard for treating many mental challenges. CBT helps you understand the intersection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is very common for the mind to get stuck in unhelpful patterns which unintentionally make you feel anxious, sad, stressed or behave in ways that don’t feel aligned. CBT teaches you to notice unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge, reframe, and then try on new behaviors that lead to better outcomes.
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Creative Processing (art therapy) engages the whole body in ways that talk therapy alone often can not. Creating with materials like paint, clay, or digital media activates areas of the brain not associated with language; helping you access feelings that are hard to put into words. Art therapy is especially helpful for trauma and processing difficult emotions.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264631/
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Do you process thoughts and feelings best while in motion? Walk-and-talk therapy happens while walking side-by-side instead of sitting face-to-face in an office. How it works: you and the therapist meet outdoors, often on a quiet trail or park path, and have your session while moving at a comfortable pace. Walking can help you feel more relaxed, less on the spot, and usually more open. The movement and fresh air can also support nervous system regulation, making it easier to process emotions.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32090775/