The following modalities are integrated in my practice to promote wellness by merging bottom up tools (body-mind) with top down tools (mind-body/cognitive)
Together we will strengthen the mind-body connection, release trapped trauma, and restore wholeness.
Somatic Experiencing® focuses on physical sensations in the body in order to release “shock” or energy that has been stored in the body after a traumatic event. This form of trauma therapy is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders created by psychologist Peter A Levine, Ph.D.
Please see this link for more detailed information: https://traumahealing.org/se-101/
Through mindful breathing and presence, we will raise your vitality, and support the healing process.
Integrative Body Psychotherapy treats the whole person, integrating the body, mind, motions and spirit by using different breathing exercises, boundary work and mindful presence. This method was developed by two American psychologists Jack Lee Rosenberg, Ph.D. and Marjory Rand, Ph.D.
You will learn to identify and evaluate unhelpful or inaccurate thinking and reframe it in more logical and balanced ways.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasizes what is going on in a person’s current life and helps to develop more effective ways of coping with daily life. CBT involves efforts to change thinking and behavioral patterns. Strategies include recognizing distortions in thinking patterns, facing one’s fears instead of avoiding them, and learning to calm one’s mind and relax one’s body.
You will learn to use exposure techniques combined with relaxation techniques.
A fear hierarchy is constructed where the person is accompanied and coached in a safe environment which breaks the pattern of avoidance and brings back a feeling of security. In Vivo Exposure Therapy is a form of CBT where a person is gradually exposed to their fears while learning to reduce their symptoms of trauma over time.
