“Why am I so good at understanding myself but so bad at changing?”

Does this sound familiar? As an EMDR practitioner, I think about this as working from two directions at once. Before training as a therapist, I worked as a coach, which gave me a top-down toolkit: helping people name what they actually want, and build a strategy towards it. What I noticed is that this only goes so far when the block isn't strategic but physiological and lives in the nervous system. I pair that top-down clarity with EMDR, a bottom-up method that works with how the brain actually stores and reprocesses experience, helping change “the operating system” at its core. I see my role as helping your body catch up to what you may already know intellectually.

Ultimately, I believe that everything that gives our lives meaning cycles between coming together and falling apart; our relationships, our creativity, our confidence, our sense of place. We'd like to "figure it out" and have it stay figured out, but it doesn't work that way. And even the recipes that used to work have a way of falling short as the ingredients change. Periods of grace come and go. The work isn't just building the conditions for things to click into place, it's finding stability and safety even when they haven't.

We might be a good fit if you’re looking to….

• Feel enough safety within yourself that you can fully accept love while also tolerating rejection

• Shift a creative block

• Reconnect with your own creativity and intuition, not just your competence

• Understand the connection between trauma and chronic illness

• Feel at home in your body instead of at war with it

• Learn to trust your gut

• Move out of analysis paralysis 

• Stop treating every decision like it has to be perfect to be safe