therapeutic modalities i like to use

I like therapy to be grounded — not just in theory and research, but also in the body and real-life experience.

If you present with nervous system dysregulation (chronic anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutdown, etc) we often begin with somatic approaches that help bring your system back into a state where healing can take root — without retraumatizing or forcing anything.

These approaches aren’t about avoiding emotions; they’re about building the capacity to feel more without becoming overwhelmed.

Once we’ve established a foundation of safety and regulation, we can begin to explore the psyche — those deeper emotional, relational, or spiritual layers that might be tangled like a bowl of existential spaghetti.
From this place, we can invite in modalities like IFS, MBT, attachment work, etc.

Therapy is something we do with you, not to you.
We titrate things to your pace so we don’t move faster than your nervous system can safely manage.

for the self

Internal family systems (IFS)

IFS helps you explore the different “parts” of yourself — the inner voices that may feel stuck, critical, overwhelmed, or protective. By building relationships with these parts, we create space for clarity, compassion, and connection to your core Self — the calm, curious, centered presence within you.

Helpful for:

- Inner conflict or self-sabotage
- Trauma and emotional overwhelm
- Identity exploration
- High self-criticism or perfectionism

Somatic Experiencing
(SE-Informed)

Somatic Experiencing gently supports the completion of unresolved survival responses (like fight, flight, or freeze) that may still be held in the body after trauma. This approach emphasizes safety, grounding, and allowing your nervous system to regulate at its own pace.

Helpful for:

- PTSD and complex trauma
- Panic, startle responses, or hypervigilance
- Emotional flooding or shutdown
- Feeling “stuck” in survival mode

Embodied Processing (EP)

This approach (a combination of the two above) supports emotional healing through the body, helping you tune into physical sensations, release stuck energy, and reconnect with your innate wisdom. It’s especially helpful when words alone can’t access the roots of pain. Rather than pushing through or analyzing, we slow down and listen to what the body has been holding.

Helpful for:

- Anxiety, dissociation, or shutdown
- Overthinking or looping thoughts
- Feeling disconnected from your emotions or body
- Chronic stress and nervous system overload

for relationships

Relational Depth Work

- Attachment-Based
- Object Relations
- Self Psychology

These approaches explore how your earliest relationships shaped the way you understand yourself and connect with others. Many of our present-day struggles — from low self-worth to relationship patterns that repeat — are echoes of those formative emotional bonds.

In this work, we gently explore the internalized “blueprints” you carry: how you expect to be treated, how you relate to closeness or conflict, and how you’ve learned to protect yourself. We also look at what parts of you may have been unseen, overly depended on, or misattuned to — and how to begin restoring a sense of emotional safety, coherence, and inner worth.

Helpful for:

- Self-esteem and identity issues
-Repetitive or confusing relationship dynamics
- Fear of abandonment or emotional engulfment
- Longing for connection but difficulty trusting it

Mentalization-Based Therapy
(MBT-Informed)

MBT helps you understand your own and others’ internal experiences more clearly — particularly in emotionally charged moments. It builds your capacity to reflect instead of react, recognize intentions beneath behavior, and stay present even when things feel intense or confusing.

Helpful for:

- Emotional dysregulation
- Fear of abandonment or rejection
- Relationship difficulties
- Developing self-trust and clearer boundaries

for meaning and spirit

Jungian Psychology

Jungian therapy explores the deeper layers of the psyche — including the unconscious patterns, symbols, and archetypes that shape our inner and outer lives. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or surface struggles, this approach invites us to listen to what your dreams, emotions, and even your resistance might be trying to say.

We may work with dreams, metaphor, and imagination as doorways into parts of yourself that may have been long silenced or forgotten. This process can support not just relief from suffering, but the emergence of meaning, creativity, and a more integrated sense of Self.

Helpful for:

- Identity/spiritual exploration:
- People drawn to dreams, symbols, or synchronicities
- Individuals experiencing life transitions
- Exploring the shadow / reclaiming lost parts of the self

Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal therapy expands the lens beyond ego and identity — toward meaning, spirituality, and your your own unique sense of the sacred..

Whether that’s nature, soul, intuition, mystery, or God, this approach creates space for the questions that don't always have easy answers. It invites space for the parts of your experience that may not fit neatly into traditional therapy: spiritual questions, altered states (dreams, meditation, creative flow), mystical experiences, and the like.

Helpful for:

- Existential or spiritual crisis
(psycho-spiritual exploration)
- Longing for deeper meaning or purpose
- Grief or “dark night of the soul” experiences
- Feeling disconnected from meaning, soul, or inner guidance