Modalities

The overall intention of SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY is to encourage and assist in the integration of body, mind, and spirit by incorporating information from the body in the present moment into the psychotherapeutic process.

HAKOMI and MINDFULNESS-BASED psychotherapies are designed to develop a greater capacity to orient our conscious awareness toward the present moment. This allows us to track the inherent and spontaneous movement towards healing that exists in every living being. Together, these provide an ideal context for developing greater capacities for self-awareness, self-trust, authenticity, and agency, all of which serve to facilitate self-acceptance and self-compassion.

NARM is a mindfulness-based, somatic psychotherapeutic modality designed to work specifically with complex developmental trauma. By exploring our relationship to ourselves and the ways we learned to adapt and survive, we can create space for our emerging agency and direct our lives towards what we most want for ourselves now.

THERAPEUTIC ORIENTATION

  • Culturally Sensitive

  • Feminist

  • Humanistic

  • Interpersonal and Transpersonal

  • Somatic

  • Attachment-based

  • Mindfulness-based

  • Strengths-based

  • Agency-based

  • Trauma-focused

  • EDUCATION and TRAININGS

  • Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, Somatic Concentration, 2012

  • Certified Hakomi Therapist, Teacher and Trainer, 2015

  • NARM Therapist, 2024

  • NARM Master Therapist in Training, 2025

  • Doctoral Student in Transformational Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies, 2020-2025