Vision & Values
Vision:
In an unjust world that is in great need of upheaval and healing, this practice provides a safe haven and practice ground for each person to build a relationship with self and other that allows them to embody their most authentic selves. Through slow, co-created therapy that works at the exact pace of your nervous system, you will learn how to:
Stay present with complex feelings and experiences without shutting down
Take up the space that you truly desire to in your relationships and the world
Attend to and integrate the parts of yourself like shame, grief and rage that may have been relegated to the shadow.
Values:
Authenticity
I am me and you are you. When I am my true self inside of the therapy space, that invites you to be the same both in the therapy space and in your regular life.
Curiosity
Curiosity is a door opener. When we approach ourselves with curiosity, particularly the parts of ourselves that have been pushed to the shadow, we invite in more awareness and knowing than we had access to before.
Vulnerability
It’s a big deal to show up open hearted to the therapy space and to do the work of building a trusting relationship with a new person. Vulnerability is essential to deep therapy work, and I prioritize the initial trust building that allows this to happen.
Interdependence
We do not heal alone and learning how to lean on others, ask for help and give support to others is a life skill worth practicing.
Honesty
We can only grow in the directions we want to when we are truthful about where we’ve been and how we are now. In session, this looks like giving voice to the parts of you and your experience that may have been hidden and being truthful about your response to the experiential process.
Self-responsibility
Emotional reactions are a normal part of life. Part of the work we do in therapy is fine tune the difference between taking other people’s reactions personally and taking responsibility for the ways that these reactions touch on tender parts of us that are hard to look at.
Creativity
Living, grieving and healing are innately creative processes, in that they can’t be controlled and we don’t know where we will end up once we allow it to move us as it will.
This practice is guided by the following assumptions:
Events that don’t get particular time and space to process through the body tend to stay stuck and leave us feeling jumbled and disconnected from our authentic selves. Overtime, this can manifest as physical pain, addiction, painful relational patterns and difficulty moving forward. We start with the body because that is where our experiences, stories and emotions are rooted.
You are not broken, and there is nothing to fix.
Gurus and healers may be seductive, but what we really need is a compassionate witness who will hold a mirror up to our process.
The body holds its own wisdom and speaks its own language. The body will release what it needs to when the nervous system feels safe and settled, and not before.
Healing is not linear, but spirals throughout the lifespan.
Good therapy is experiential and process oriented.
LET’S CONNECT