“We are adaptive rather than disordered”
-Bonnie Badenoch
Balance Through Befriending
Therapeutic techniques play a key role in healing. Together, we will find what works best for you. However, even more important than the techniques is our relationship and how you relate to yourself. I prioritize the quality of our connection by using present-moment interventions to ensure we are aligned. Every technique we agree to use serves the goal of helping you increase awareness and befriend your own experience. Lasting, meaningful change comes through befriending and accepting yourself—only then can the techniques we use truly be effective.
Trauma Sensitive Therapy
I understand trauma as something that can be both inherited across generations and experienced directly through overwhelming events like accidents, injuries, or assaults. But trauma isn’t always loud or obvious—developmental trauma, which affects nearly all of us, often comes from repeated experiences like emotional neglect, judgment, or feeling unseen. Whether trauma shows up in subtle or more severe ways, healing begins by acknowledging its impact and gently working with the protective strategies you’ve developed—such as dissociation, avoidance, addiction, or hypervigilance. Rather than trying to eliminate these responses, we build compassionate awareness around them, allowing you to make more empowered, moment-to-moment choices in how you relate to yourself and the world. Through processing traumatic memories with befriending and approaches like EMDR, Brainspotting, and somatic awareness, the nervous system is given the opportunity to fully complete what was once overwhelming, often allowing the trauma to feel resolved and significantly reducing, or even eliminating, its ongoing emotional and physiological impacts.
Somatic-Based Techniques
While verbal processing is an important part of our sessions, we will also explore your internal experience through a bottom-up, somatic approach. This method emphasizes the deep connection between mind and body, using awareness of sensation, breath, and movement to support healing. If you want, supportive touch can also be integrated as a powerful resource for compassion, grounding, and connection. Throughout our work together, you are always in choice—this process is about reconnecting with your body’s innate wisdom in a way that feels safe, empowering, and aligned with your pace.
Time-Intensive Therapy
Intensive therapy offers a spacious and uninterrupted container for deeper healing by moving beyond the limitations of traditional 50-minute sessions, where it can be hard to build momentum and easy to lose it just as meaningful work begins. With longer sessions, the therapeutic process can unfold more naturally, giving you the time and space to stay connected to your emotions, insights, and inner experiences without feeling rushed or cut off. Research in the field shows that when therapy happens in longer or more concentrated blocks, people often make progress more quickly—especially with trauma, anxiety, and depression—because the brain has more uninterrupted time to process, integrate, and settle.
This extended format allows for the thoughtful integration of modalities such as EMDR, Brainspotting, sandtray, parts work, somatic approaches, and expressive arts—approaches that are most effective when there is sustained focus and a slower, more embodied pace. With modalities like EMDR and Brainspotting in particular, longer sessions create more space for deeper resolution of traumatic memories and the ability to process multiple targets within a single session. Short integration breaks built into the process support grounding, nourishment, and nervous-system regulation, helping the work land more deeply. For clients who travel to see me, intensives reduce the need for frequent trips by consolidating therapy into fewer visits while maintaining depth and continuity. Overall, intensive therapy creates a steady, focused environment that supports meaningful progress and allows the work to unfold with greater depth and continuity. Intensive therapy sessions can range from 2 to 6 hours. If you’re curious about what length might be the best fit for your needs, I invite you to schedule a consultation so we can explore it together.