My Approach
Your body holds
the answers.
My work is rooted in the understanding that the body is not a problem to be solved, but a landscape to be explored. Through somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and compassionate inquiry, we move through what has kept you stuck and toward the life your body intuitively knows how to call in.
At the heart of this work are the principles of Hakomi, a mindful somatic approach that treats the body as a direct doorway to the unconscious patterns shaping how we live, love, and relate.
The Hakomi Principles
These five principles guide every session, not as techniques, but as a way of being with you and your experience.
Mindfulness
Real change comes through awareness, not effort. By slowing down and turning attention inward, we access the unconscious material that drives our patterns, material that conversation alone rarely reaches.
Nonviolence
We work with what arises, not against it. Defenses and protective parts are honored as wisdom, not obstacles. Nothing is forced; everything is invited.
Organicity
Each person carries their own unique blueprint for healing. My role is to follow your inner wisdom, trusting that your system knows what it needs and will move toward wholeness when given the right conditions.
Unity
We are not separate from our environment, our relationships, or each other. Healing happens in connection, and the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a container for new experience.
Mind-Body Holism
The body and mind are not separate systems. They are one. Beliefs, memories, and emotions live in the body as posture, breath, sensation, and movement. Working somatically means working with the whole person.
IFS — Internal Family Systems
Alongside Hakomi, I draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS), a powerful framework for understanding the many "parts" that live within us — the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the protector, the wounded child. Rather than silencing or overriding these parts, IFS invites us to turn toward them with curiosity and compassion. Each one carries a positive intention, even when its methods cause us pain.
Together, Hakomi and IFS create a deeply complementary approach: Hakomi brings us into the body to feel and sense what is present. IFS gives language and relationship to the parts we discover there. Together, the result is healing that is both embodied and deeply personal.
