Specialties.
Here are some of the territories that I know and work with most deeply. Click on the link for each specialty to learn more.
I help artists develop sustainable ways of relating to their nervous system as instrument, their creative blocks as doorway, their unconscious as inner guide and crucible of creativity, and their art as expression of the soul…
Burnout and creative blocks can feel like an ending. In many ways, they are—but in a different way than you might think. They often mark the ending of a certain way of living, working, or creating and an initiation into something very different…
Tired of relationships that feel abusive or one-sided? Wanting to better understand your needs, wants, and boundaries so you
can effectively communicate them? Healing from narcissistic abuse and codependency is certainly possible with the right support…
With the dark night of the soul comes despair, loss of meaning, and deep uncertainty about life and its purpose. While this experience can be painful, it can also be a time of transformation and rebirth that spurs the discarding of what’s unnecessary, false, or obsolete…
Approaches.
Depth therapy weaves together age-old global wisdom, the groundbreaking work of 20th-century psychology pioneers, and current neuroscience research. The term “depth therapy” is actually an umbrella term that describes a range of approaches. The common threads that weave through all of these approaches are an interest in the unconscious (the part of our psyche that lies under the surface of everyday awareness) and an emphasis on the Self or soul (the part of the psyche where the personal and transpersonal, or spiritual, interface).
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Depth Therapy
Somatic Therapy (including Somatic Experiencing®)
“Somatic” refers to the study of the body. The primary somatic modality I draw from is Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), a body-oriented approach to addressing trauma and stress. Rather than requiring you to revisit traumatic memories directly or intensively, SE works gradually and incrementally. I also incorporate other somatic therapy techniques and modalities, such as movement, dance, breathwork, body awareness, and body-based expressive arts. In addition, I incorporate nervous system education for artists, based in part on the Fox Method, developed by Ruby Fox.
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Expressive arts therapy encompasses a wide range of creative modalities: visual arts (drawing, collage, painting, photography), writing, poetry, music, movement, storytelling, sand tray, and drama, to name a few. In expressive arts therapy, these art forms aren’t used for aesthetic judgment or critique. Instead, they’re potent tools for self-exploration and self-expression. Working in these registers offers a direct line to what the rational intellect alone cannot reach—the deeper layers of self that hold our wounds, our wisdom, and our unlived life.
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Expressive Arts Therapy
You have the need and right to care for your soul.
“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output—how much you produce—not in terms of the quality of your life experiences.
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
—Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD