This process begins with an initial session or two in which feelings, issues, and goals are clarified and the style of this approach is demonstrated. Intake and informational forms are reviewed. If the issues and approach are compatible a plan is created. Plans are based on client’s needs, goals, and logistics and the therapeutic assessment.  Ideally, the plan serves as a flexible map for the work, with an understanding that the process is sometimes unpredictable.

The initial goal of the counseling is to establish a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship. A good therapeutic relationship helps people grow and change by fostering self-acceptance.  As the work progresses, clients explore difficult feelings, examine life patterns, identify the various systems that influence their lives, practice new skills, and make choices and changes.

Each therapeutic process is unique, but the approach always includes body awareness. Clients who have a difficult time connecting to their feelings due to depression, chronic pain, past trauma, and built-in defense mechanisms find better access to their feelings as they learn to breathe, center, and identify the postural patterns that shape their reality. Clients who struggle with anxiety are taught to use physical cues to identify their fears and learn how to relax. Clients who suffer from poor body image learn how to experience the body as resource rather than a problem.  The therapy involves analytic depth, practical skills, and useful tools that help clients reconnect to their bodies, their feelings, and their intuition.

Sessions conclude with a review of the original goals so that progress can be measured and plans for the future made. The completion allows clients to speak honestly and directly about what they did and did not receive from the work. This kind of direct communication offers a chance to practice intimate communication while empowering the client as they move forward with their lives.

Sessions take place bi-weekly, weekly, or bi-monthly and include work with individuals, couples, and family dyads. (i.e. mother/daughter, siblings,…) Sessions may be 60 or 90 minutes long.  Session Fees vary based on length of session.