I help people who want to be more fully themselves to notice, tolerate and regulate little signals of anxiety in the body, steering them toward emotion, so they can matter, so they can grow.

Growth:

Growth is simple – it is the natural unfolding of who you are meant to be. Like a seed that has been awaiting the right soil, sun and water, we only need the right conditions to emerge in our authentic selves. 

We are built to grow. A deep part of us calls for our growth. We have everything we need within us. We need only the right experiences and the time to digest them. To Have and To Hold is the framework for those experiences, the foundation for our growth.

But the journey is not easy. There are obstacles, some wired into us and some outside of us, that must be navigated. And we all can benefit from support along the way. 

Therapy

is a relationship in which your growth is the priority for both of us. 

It is a relationship between experts. You are the expert on you. I am the expert on transformation and growth.  I connect with the healthiest parts of you, mobilizing your innate wiring for growth. I help you To Have and To Hold yourself, guiding you into the fullest expression of who you are meant to be.  

We cultivate a way of being together that is warm, interested, and nonjudgemental.  So that you can risk feeling your human vulnerability.  So that you can feel what is deeply true for you, and can fully express that truth. 

These are experiences, not just ideas, and they need to be lived and felt, not just understood in the mind.

And yet although this is a simple thing, it is not easy. Much is asked of you:

• willingness to engage in a relationship where you deeply matter
• courage to feel and be in the body
• openness to being surprised by who and what we find
• and a commitment to stop treating yourself lovelessly.

So that you can emerge in all you are meant to be, confident in your ability to cope, and able to connect with yourself and others, sharing the gift of who you are with the world.