Areas of Focus

Somatic Therapy

  • Anxiety*

  • Developmental Trauma*

  • Embodiment Challenges

  • Relationship Issues*

  • Trauma & PTSD*

  • Chronic Illness

  • Chronic Pain

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Family Conflict

  • Grief

  • Life Transitions

  • Obsessive / Intrusive Thoughts

  • Peer Relationships

  • Self Esteem

  • Shame

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Stress

    *Core Focuses

TLDR:

Ultimately, I get my kicks from exploring the therapeutic process as creative experimentation for feeling into your fullness and seeing the ways relational, body-based practices can help to restore a full sense of self and a felt sense of nervous system resiliency.

  • Anxiety*

  • Developmental Trauma*

  • Embodiment Challenges (Not feeling your body or feeling “too much” of your body — “Somatic Hyper-Fixation”)

  • Relationship Issues*

  • Trauma & PTSD*

  • Chronic Illness

  • Chronic Pain

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Emotional Disturbances

Areas of Focus:

  • Ongoing | 5-Year Program in Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Toronto started in 2021 — Expected completion in June 2026

  • Intermediate Level Assistant and Beginning Level Personal Session Provider with Somatic Experiencing International founded by Dr. Peter Levine (2024)

  • Certificate in Somatic Experiencing | 3-Year Professional Training Program with Somatic Experiencing International (2020-2023)

  • Certification in Reformer Pilates (2024)

  • Movement for Trauma Level I with Jane Clapp (2021)

  • 200 Hour Contemporary Pilates Training (2019)

  • 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation Training (2015-2016)

Education & Training:

As a white, cis-, able-bodied woman, the learnings & un-learnings in what create safer and more accessible spaces is a lifelong practice that I am committed to. I strive to challenge oppression in all of its forms in myself, others, and systems and stay open to receiving such.

This includes forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, fat phobia, and any other forms of discrimination and stigmatization.

I believe that anti-oppressive practices are critical in building a future where access is abundant and belonging is felt. I aim to hold an accountable space and remain open to ways of best supporting the needs and dignity of every person that I work with.

To continually deepen my ability to practice ways of better supporting the folks I work with, some my training has included:

  • Reverence and Repair with Marika Heinrichs - Wildbody Somatics (2023)

  • Comfortable Conversations About Race with Natalie Haynes (2023)

  • Reclaiming Pleasure: Embodied Joy in Trauma Recovery and Social Change with Kai Cheng Thom (2022)

  • Reaching In, Reaching Out with New Leaf Foundation (2021)

  • Sharing Privilege with Robin Lacambra (2020)

Belonging Practices:

Feel It For Yourself

Feel It For Yourself