About EMDR:

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a research-backed psychotherapy approach designed to help people heal from trauma and other distressing life experiences. It uses guided bilateral stimulation—such as eye movements or tapping—to help the brain reprocess painful memories. Over time, this process reduces the emotional charge of those memories and replaces negative beliefs with more empowering ones. Many people find that EMDR helps them feel less stuck in habitual responses and allows them to be more able to live in the present.

About Somatic Experiencing:

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
— Peter Levine

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a gentle, body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress. Rather than analyzing what happened or retelling the story, SE helps you tune into the subtle language of your body — the sensations, movements, and impulses that often hold the imprint of past overwhelm.

From a nondual and compassion-based perspective, SE is not about fixing or changing who you are — it’s about creating space for the body to unwind what it no longer needs to carry. Trauma isn’t just in the event; it lives in the nervous system, in unfinished fight, flight, or freeze responses. SE offers a slow, respectful path to completion and restoration.

About Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy:

Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is a supportive process that combines the transformative potential of psychedelic medicine with the safety and guidance of a therapeutic relationship. In this space, non-ordinary states of consciousness can help us access deep layers of emotion, memory, and insight — often beyond what talk therapy alone can reach.

From a somatic and trauma-informed perspective, this work is about meeting what arises — in the body, in the psyche, in the heart — with curiosity and compassion. By staying present and grounded, we create the conditions for stuck trauma, unconscious patterns, and even core identity structures to loosen and begin to integrate.

A nondual lens can also guide this work, helping clients experience the spaciousness of awareness itself — a place beyond the story of self, where healing doesn’t come from effort, but from resting in what’s already whole.

This often includes gently connecting with different parts of the self — aspects that may have been protecting, reacting, or holding pain — and creating space for them to soften, integrate, and feel supported.

Engaging in PAT allows for safety, presence and integration while with the medicine.  My role is to support you before, during (in legal contexts), and after your journey through:

• Preparation — cultivating clarity, intention, and somatic tools for navigating the experience

• Guided support — to create safety and provide a therapeutic context

• Integration — weaving insights into daily life through body-based, mindful, and compassionate practices

This work is grounded, not rushed — and always attuned to your nervous system, your history, and your inner wisdom which leads the pace.

About Parts Work:

Parts work is a therapeutic approach based on the understanding that we are not just one unified self, but a collection of inner “parts” — each with its own voice, feeling, or role. These parts often develop in response to life experiences, especially overwhelming or traumatic ones, and they carry unique perspectives, needs, and emotions.

Some parts may try to protect us by staying hypervigilant, people-pleasing, shutting down, or striving for control. Others may hold pain, fear, or shame that was too much to feel at the time. Often, we also have deeply wise, intuitive parts that carry resilience, creativity, and calm.

Working with parts is about compassion, not control.  Rather than trying to get rid of parts or change them, we bring gentle curiosity and compassionate attention to each one. Through this process, parts that were once in conflict can begin to soften, release burdens, and work together in more integrated ways.

In my approach, we don’t just talk about the parts — we also feel them in the body, noticing how they show up through sensation, posture, breath, or movement. This allows for deep healing that’s not just cognitive, but embodied.  We also hold the possibility that while these parts arise within us, they are not the totality of who we are. Beyond the parts is a deeper awareness — spacious, kind, and unshaken — that can hold all of them with care.