Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an innovative and empowering therapeutic approach that helps individuals connect with their internal world to better understand and heal their emotions, beliefs, and behaviors. IFS can help you build a healthier relationship with yourself by identifying and understanding the roles of each part within you. By acknowledging and caring for the various parts of your inner system, you can address sources of emotional pain, resolve inner conflicts, and promote personal growth. IFS provides tools for navigating trauma, managing anxiety, and creating positive changes in self-esteem, relationships and overall well-being.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidenced-based intervention that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. I offer EMDR interwoven into your regular counseling sessions or EMDR intensives for a more concentrated short term trauma treatment. EMDR Therapy can help shift negative thoughts, emotional states, and somatic cues in a positive direction, allowing you to look ahead at a brighter future.

Polyvagal Theory is a groundbreaking framework that explains how our nervous system responds to stress, safety and social connection. Our nervous system is built to shift between states of safety/connection, fight/flight and freeze. By learning about the different states and traits of your nervous system and how to activate the “safe state”, people can better manage overwhelming emotions and foster resilience. Techniques rooted in Polyvagal theory can help individuals regulate their nervous system, reduce reactivity and build a greater sense of safety and connection. Understanding and accessing the tools of polyvagal theory can be transformative for individuals dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression and other stress related issues.

For clients who want more concentrated treatment, I offer EMDR intensives — extended sessions designed to move through trauma processing more efficiently than weekly therapy allows. Intensives can be especially helpful if you're preparing for a major life transition, working toward a specific goal, or returning to address unfinished trauma work.

Talk alone doesn't always reach where trauma lives. That's why our work together may also incorporate somatic experiencing, expressive arts (writing, art, sand tray), and mindfulness-based approaches. These body-based methods help access and shift trauma that may not yet have words — creating change at a deeper, more lasting level.