Approach

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a compassionate psychotherapeutic approach that helps you understand and care for the different parts of your inner world.

It’s a way of getting to know the patterns, feelings and emotions that drive your reactions without judgment.

You can learn more about IFS here ifs-institute.com.

EMDR is designed to help support the brain in doing what it naturally knows how to do — process and integrate experiences into healthy memories.

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements, tapping, or sound) to turn on your natural processing system, gently helping the brain process and re-integrate challenging memories in a less distressing way.

Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR doesn't require you to verbally recount every detail of your experience. Many people find this to be a relief, as deep healing can happen without having to "talk through" everything in the traditional sense.

You can learn more about EMDR and verify credentials at emdria.org.

Art therapy is a distinct mental health discipline that uses the creative process as a therapeutic tool to explore emotion, process experience, and gain insight. Working with materials such as paint, collage, clay, or drawing, the process of creating becomes a form of communication, allowing things to surface that words alone may not capture.

No artistic experience or skill is needed. What matters is not what is made, but what the making might reveal.

Learn more about art therapy here.

We are our bodies. While our bodies let us feel pleasure, engage in laughter and soak up the sun, we may also experience our bodies as separate, foreign, burdensome, chronically painful, digestively-stuck and even unpredictable. Many of us have learned to blunt, dim or even ignore our bodies in favor of our thinking minds. Somatic and Mindfulness work supports deepening connection to the body’s communication channels so that we can deepen connection with ourselves.

In session, I may guide you to notice what sensations you’re feeling within your body as we explore different topics or emotions. If appropriate, I may invite you into a mindfulness practice with cues for paced breathing exercises and nonjudgemental awareness to support your nervous system. Your capacity to pay attention to your own experience as it’s happening is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. With trauma-informed invitations to explore the body’s memories and capacity for communication, we can support deepening you connection to this vital resource.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-researched, evidence-based approach that centers the role of emotion as a guide toward deeper self-understanding and more secure, meaningful connection to self and others.

EFT supports you in identifying, accessing and making sense of emotions that may have been pushed aside, buried, or never fully understood. This may involve exploring and witnessing younger versions of yourself that learned different strategies to survive and make sense of the world.

Through working directly with emotion, EFT supports the development of a sense of internal clarity and integration. When your feelings, thoughts, and sense of self begin to align authentically, you lay the groundwork for developing more secure attachments.

Feeling more secure often comes with a deeper capacity for connection, resilience, and the kind of emotional wholeness that allows you to show up more fully in your life and relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) explores the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It works from the understanding that the way we interpret our experiences has a direct impact on how we feel and how we act. In CBT, we identify patterns of thinking that may be contributing to distress, and work to develop more balanced, accurate, and supportive ways of understanding yourself and the world around you.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) builds on this foundation by integrating mindfulness practices to help you cultivate your ability to observe your thoughts and feelings with curiosity and without judgment, rather than being automatically pulled into them. MBCT was originally developed to support people with recurrent depression, and has since been shown to be effective for anxiety, stress, and emotional dysregulation more broadly.

Together, CBT and MBCT offer practical, skills-based tools that can create meaningful and lasting shifts in how you relate to your inner experience.