My path into trauma therapy began with the body. Through many years of exploring body-oriented approaches, nervous-system regulation, tension release, mindfulness and meditation, I came to understand how deeply our experiences can live in the body — as chronic tension, restlessness, overwhelm, shutdown or disconnection.

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But I also came to see that regulation alone is not always enough. I became more interested in the question which psychodynamics are driving the physical reactions and internal states, rather than just releasing the symptoms. ​Much of what we experience as emotional challenges or physical tension as adults is connected to survival strategies that developed within our earliest relationships. They can shape how we see ourselves, how we respond emotionally and how close we allow ourselves to become to other people.

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This led me increasingly toward developmental and relational trauma work and NARM.

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Today, my approach brings these perspectives together. I work across body, emotions and relationships, with NARM at the center, and somatic work and IFS integrated where helpful.

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I don't see therapy as fixing something that is wrong with you. ​I see it as an opportunity to bring curiosity to the ways you learned to survive, to develop greater awareness, to grow the capacity for self-regulation, and to discover what becomes possible when old strategies no longer determine the way you live your life.

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My role is not to tell you who you should become. ​It is to support you in developing greater connection as well as more freedom and agency to create the life you most want for yourself.