An Integrative Approach to Wellness
I believe we all hold within us a tremendous inner capacity for resilience. Sometimes all we need to activate our resilience is someone to help us see the greatness and beauty within ourselves. I believe my job is to hold a picture of everyone I work with as whole and healthy–especially if they cannot yet see it in themselves. I hold open for you the possibility of wholeness and healing until you are able to fully step into it yourself.
I work primarily with professionals who are experiencing burn-out, struggling with work-life balance, have been diagnosed with an illness or seek support with interpersonal relationships and group dynamics. My style emphasizes developing a safe and trusting relationship as a means to support you in discovering your own truths and deepening your relationship with yourself.
“It is the theory that decides what we can observe.” -Albert Einstein
The following terms help describe the way I observe–listen and think:
Empirically-Supported (used interchangeably with evidence-based) refers to approaches that have been studied and determined to offer measurable health benefit to clients. All of my work is empirically supported.
Cognitive refers to the awareness that our thoughts influence our health and wellbeing; they play an important role in shaping our self concept, our worldview, relationships with others, and guide meaning-making in our lives.
Depth-Oriented (used interchangeably with Jungian, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic) refers to the role our unconscious and personal histories play in influencing our thoughts, behaviors and emotional health or distress.
Somatic (used together with psychophysiology and neurobiology) refers to the body and how our mind and body are not just connected but are the same process; every thought and feeling is simultaneously a physical event.
Integrative is a method of psychotherapy that blends more than one theoretical orientation offering clients a customized treatment approach.