Therapeutic Approach

As a Social Worker, I know that each person develops within a greater social environment.  I use trauma-informed, systemically-aware, strengths-based interventions to help my clients redefine their relationships with themselves and others and liberate who they truly are.  To do this, I primarily integrate two therapeutic modalities: Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and Somatic Experiencing (SE).

I am a Certified IFS Therapist (Level 3) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP).

I have been practicing IFS with clients since 2014 and completed IFS Level 1 Training in 2015. I have gone on to complete all three levels of IFS Training and became a Certified IFS Therapist in 2021. I am also an IFS Program Assistant, helping to train other IFS Therapists through the IFS-Institute, and an IFS-Institute Approved Clinical Consultant, offering consultation and support to therapists who are working toward IFS Certification. IFS is at the heart of my therapy practice!

I have been practicing SE with clients since 2019 and completed Advanced SE training in 2022. I find that IFS and SE deeply compliment each other to promote the health and healing of whole people and their communities.

• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS):  Holding space for our core Self to connect with the parts of ourselves that have taken on extreme protective roles, or carry extreme beliefs, in response to life’s hardships and restoring the Self-trust that allows those parts of ourselves to release their burdens and live and feel in the present moment.

• Somatic Experiencing (SE):  Using our physical bodies, somatic awareness, and interpersonal connectedness to increase our capacity to feel and tolerate emotions and sensations, process and release the impacts of trauma, develop our sense of safety, and regulate the mind and body.