Specialties: Focusing, Expressive Arts, Walking and Nature

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Inner Relationship Focusing is an approach that can be used both within and outside of psychotherapy, which teaches us how to slow down to listen to what we need, both moment to moment and big picture.  Slowing down to feel the feelings that we often run from, we learn that we are strong enough to handle powerful emotions.  We also learn that when we give our feelings the attention they need, we create room for them to communicate and transform, rather than snowball or stagnate.  

Inner Relationship Focusing provides tools for becoming kind to ourselves, for making our inner relationship, our relationship with ourselves, the kind of relationship we have always wanted.  It helps us move toward a healing relationship with even the most hurt parts of ourselves that we try to hide away deep inside.  When we take time to get to know these parts without judging them, we give them the fresh air they need to evolve.  

I incorporate aspects of Inner Relationship Focusing into much of my work, and teach interested clients how to use these tools themselves.  Inner Relationship Focusing has many parallels to Internal Family Systems, a modality that is currently more widely known.  Focusing and Expressive Arts Therapy are highly effective in combination as well.  

Sometimes words don't feel powerful enough, or they keep you in your head.  The arts are particularly useful for accessing and exploring emotions that language can't quite capture, and for feelings and experiences you've already put into words a million times without experiencing relief.   

Making images by drawing, collaging, painting, or using movement, sound, writing, or music can all be entry points to discovering the creative energy that can emerge from, express, and transform suffering.  

No skill is required, and there is no right or wrong way to express yourself.  Expressive Arts Therapy pairs very well with Inner Relationship Focusing, both optional aspects of our work together, based on your level of interest.   

Nature heals.

When scheduling permits, I offer interested clients walking sessions and sessions in nature.  

Have you had the experience of feeling trapped in particular thoughts and emotions, like you are stuck on a hamster wheel, only to go outside and find that a view of the outer landscape provides fresh resources for your internal landscape?

Moving your body through space, with your feet grounded on the earth, can add another powerful dimension to your movement through the emotions and experiences you can process with me.