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“Grief is love with nowhere to go.” – Jamie Anderson

Grief is as personal and individual as the relationship that has been lost. If someone you love has died, or you yourself are facing a known timeline for the end of your life, I am here to help. Together we can explore the value of feeling the pain, adjusting to what is, and the rigorous process of saying goodbye.

Using Somatic Psychotherapy we will explore and create the importance of rituals, your personal access to spirituality, the unknown and life “after” this significant event. Grief sometimes gets in the way of daily living, and often is accompanied by recurrent and intrusive thoughts. images, memories, feelings, body sensations, flashbacks, and nightmares. You are not alone.

“All bodies are fundamentally good and lovable.” – Resmaa Menakem

Trauma is anything that the body remembers because it was Too much, Too soon, Too fast, Too long and not enough of something reparative. Our bodies remember, and through the use of Somatic Psychotherapy we can work together to calm your nervous system, build sustainable resources, and integrate those parts of you that don’t currently “fit.”

Together, you and I will discover how your body can become an important ally and resource for you. Transformation comes, not from analysis or insight, but primarily through exploring your experience on multiple levels (thoughts, emotions, sensations, movement, images and memories).

Change happens when we mindfully play with new ways of being.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Supervision is a combination of presenting ethical dilemmas, problem cases with attention to diagnostic evaluation, treatment planning, ongoing case management, emergency intervention, record-keeping, and termination. However, it is also a place to explore the love of the work, how to keep yourself resourced, and to gain greater insight into your own bias, activation or triggers, and countertransference.

I am an approved supervisor for the Oregon Board of Licensed Social Workers and the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists.

“I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.” – bell hooks

As an approved supervisor in Oregon and a former Clinical Director of an Intensive Outpatient Program, I offer 1:1 sessions with therapists who want to discuss a specific case.

Using Somatic Psychotherapy and the gift of countertransference, we can process your questions about your client and how you are being activated in specific relationships.

Consultation is usually a case by case intervention, can be helpful in complex cases including Supervision of Supervision, and is recommended in the documentation of some clinical case notes.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Unknown

Therapy can be an intense process. I am currently experimenting with the ability to attach and detach in a healthy and mindful way through the use of short-term therapy. This process will include a 90-day/3 month relationship where we dive into a specific issue you identify to rightfully require our full attention.

Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, we will build your sustainable resources, process the emotions instead of the specific event, provide transformation and integration of the new self, and end with intention. This experiment might best be accessed by mental health providers with SP training, those with a strong support network or someone with a “single event” like an accident or natural disaster.