Work-Life Balance & Career Break Somatic Psychotherapy

Support to Navigate

• stress, burnout, and problematic cycles of behavior/interaction that drain you

• setting boundaries and communicating clearly and effectively to care for yourself

• relaxing and nourishing yourself throughout the day/week/month, to keep what you do sustainable

• accessing how you feel and finding out what you need

• regulating your nervous system through movement, mindfulness, and techniques

• creating a loving, self-parenting relationship with yourself

• permission to rest, heal/recover

• planning a career break and support throughout the journey

• personal growth/self-actualization

• manifesting passions and longings

Allow me to support and guide you to experience embodied change you can feel.. (instead of just think about)

What I Offer...

Through a somatic (felt sense/body awareness) intuitive and organic psychotherapeutic process:

What This is NOT

• Career counseling

• Resume & job search guidance

• Structured/systematic work

• Coaching

Sometimes a Career Break is Just What You Need!

Shining compassionate light on your experience is the first step to bringing healing and change. Once we shine this light, transformation is already in progress.

Allow me to facilitate your process through bringing light, warmth, and non-judgment, along with an eclectic mix of therapeutic tools, including Somatic Experiencing®, to all the parts of you and your experience- the challenging and supportive, each so deserving of attention.

Somatic Experiencing ®

Somatic (Body) Psychotherapy treats the whole person, integrating body, mind, emotions, and spirit, enabling you to do deeper more meaningful work in less time with more lasting results. I work with the breath, movement, inner body sensations/awareness, and access the right-brain through symbolism, intuition, & imagery. Somatic Experiencing® teaches you to track and attune to your nervous system to regulate, release trauma, empower and protect, and attend to needs and nervous system states effectively.

Hakomi

Hakomi is grounded in five principles: mindfulness, nonviolence, organicity, unity and body-mind holism. We support defenses that may arise and see them as important protectors, trust and follow what is arising in your mind/body/spirit with no agenda, and explore what arises using experiments that offer real change experiences in the present moment.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness invites us to focus on sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. Practicing mindfulness involves breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to notice the signals of the body, mind, and emotions. This helps create space from habitual patterns so we can feel choice, freedom, and empowerment. Mindfulness also can provide relaxation and stress reduction.

Gestalt

Gestalt emphasizes present moment experience, the relationship between the therapist and the client, as well as the relationship between internal parts within the client. "Open Seat" work is used to dialogue between parts of the client, or people from the client's life [past/present]. Past issues are invited to be experienced in the present (through re-enactment, role play, or visualization) to interact with what is true now in the client's experience.

Modalities of Therapy I Draw On: