From my point of view…

If someone had told me years ago that good feelings like enthusiasm, vitality, and joy don’t automatically pop up when the tough stuff falls away, I would have told them they were “crazy” – in a kindly sort of way.

Except, I now realize that the typical “one step forward, three steps back” or what some describe as self-sabotage are often our best efforts  at finding a way out of pain and suffering.

Which begs a deeper question, without the story we weave about ourselves and share with others, who are we?

How I work…

I use a brain-wise approach to counselling that embeds the narrative of your life into physiological awareness for the purpose of promoting mind-body healing.

Huh?

What I’m really saying here is that I love to help folks learn how to reduce the “charge” in the nervous system that accompanies:

• Tension, pain, and anxiety (buzzing too high) and/or,
• Depression (boosting energy up through bringing in helpful resources).

This helps the nervous system find its optimal range and as it does so, learn how to roll with the “punches” of life into balance and get-up-and-go.

To this end, I use a variety of therapy approaches including somatic experiencing, self-regulation therapy, bodynamics, cognitive behavioural, and psychodynamic.

We can’t heal it if we can’t feel it…yet, we need to find our way through our stuck spots in an embodied way.

Psychological insight, physiological and energy awareness, and at times spiritual reflection are essential to healing and transformation – it’s a full body/brain experience!

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson