Understanding the nervous system’s role in human experience:
safety versus threat, connection versus separation, resilience versus disempowerment.
My approach
I help individuals and families to transform nervous system dysregulation into healthy nervous system regulation. With expressive therapies and somatic practices, we bring about change by safely discovering the somatic stories, and body reactions, found within nervous system patterns. This process explores how we sense, think, feel, believe, express, and imagine with attunement and support.
Methods
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Expressive Arts (EXA)
Drawing, cutting paper, writing poetry, and land-art are just some of the potential EXA counseling modalities. EXA explores presence, trusting in process, inquiry, receptivity, embodiment, creative and active imagination, perception, personal growth, non-judgement, playfulness, and attention to beauty.
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Somatic Experiencing
The SE approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body. SE facilitates ongoing cycles of activation and deactivation (expansion and contraction) by gently guiding the nervous system in and out of states of arousal and settling.
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The Safe & Sound Protocol
The science of sound. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a therapeutic tool with the potential to create meaningful shifts in the autonomic nervous system. The SSP is a powerful tool for supporting the physiology of connection, regulation, and function.
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Rolfing® Structural and Movement Integration
Rolfing® Structural and Movement Integration brings the body into greater alignment with gravity through making changes in connective tissue, perception, awareness, and education. It is both a manual therapy and movement therapy modality
About Me
I am a somatic practitioner in Auckland, New Zealand. I work in person in Mt Eden village and virtually with persons from all around the globe.
I offer therapy for individuals and families seeking help and support around trauma and nervous system related issues.
Start with a first session.
This is a time for us to meet, ask questions, hear about your experience, begin to develop a therapeutic relationship of safety, and explore how we might facilitate, at the nervous system level, the change process.