Therapeutic Approaches
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is a type of mind-body therapy utilizing physical practices and techniques relating to the felt sense of the body. Somatic therapy explores the connection between sensation, emotion and thought while discovering the sensate differences in balance and imbalance between all three.
We have been taught to focus on the external factors of life - work, school, family, society - while ignoring the sensations that are taking place inside of us. Somatic practices put us back into relationship with our bodies, bringing the unknown parts of ourselves into awareness.
Somatic experiencing enables us to live an embodied existence by enhancing our bodily sense experience. Embodied psychotherapy is a "bottom-up" approach that uses information from the body and the nervous system for increasing self-awareness and reprogramming old beliefs, stories and thoughts that are no longer useful.
When we live in embodiment, we bring our whole body online and become aligned with the way we want to feel, think, act and express ourselves.
Embodied Psychotherapy
In embodied psychotherapy, somatic techniques are utilized to help deepen psychotherapeutic work. This allows the therapist to meet the client at the felt sense level of their body and emotion while providing an opportunity to expand their relationship to themselves. The client is then able to enhance their understanding of their symptoms while finding better relief and resolution. Sometimes clients find that in traditional talk therapy their symptoms lessen but do not fully resolve. When clients shift deeper into embodied awareness they have better access to feeling states and attitudes and are better able to resolve symptoms that tend to linger in talk therapy.
Inner Relationship Focusing
Inner Relationship Focusing is a gentle technique used to help clients access and develop relationships with their inner states. First learned by the therapist in their own body, this technique can be integrated into psychotherapy practices which then facilitates both the therapist and client in developing greater awareness and compassion for their felt sense states.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness therapy helps the client learn how to be completely aware of the present moment while accepting their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may utilize practices and interventions such as mindfulness meditation, body scans, gentle stretches, and urge surfing. The focus in mindfulness therapy is on helping the client to increase awareness of the specific thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviors that hold them back in life.
Therapy sessions
Cash pay rate is $90 for 45 minutes
Insurance is not currently being accepted