Relationships

What's buoying you amidst the turbulent waters of life?

For me, it's relationships. Relationships that include the relationship with myself as well as others: my therapist, my mentor, a couple of friends, my cat, my mom... it's a small but robust circle of nourishing and affirming relationships that create space for the fullness of my humanity.

Relationships are also at the center of my work with clients. At a minimum, two relationships are present: the relationship between us and the relationship between you and your bodyself. Our relationship — which I approach as a collaboration anchored in deep respect for your dignity, autonomy, and agency — offers a container for you to engage in gentle, curious, and compassionate body-based inquiry.

I see my role as a companion, witness, and guide who is available to support you to tune into and notice what you're experiencing in your body in its own language: sensations, energies, imagery, and colors. Together, we discover and honor how your emotions, beliefs, survival strategies, and memories are held within your body. It's a sacred journey in which we practice being in relationship with a quality of spacious, caring, and receptive presence.

If somatic exploration within this framework speaks to you, I invite you to set up a consultation for us to chat further. I have a few weekday afternoon slots available for either weekly or biweekly (every-other-week) virtual somatic sessions. Virtual sessions are available to adults (age 18 or older) living in any geographical location, within the U.S. or beyond. The first step is to fill out a brief questionnaire.

I tend to be a good fit for folks who are hoping to explore and shift their relationship to adaptive strategies such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, over-achieving, chronic emotional caretaking of others, consistently deferring to the preferences & desires of others and/or minimizing one's own needs & feelings in an effort to secure approval, connection and/or a sense of security.

I have lived experience with & especially enjoy supporting folks who are navigating anxiety, adult survivors of childhood emotional abuse (particularly narcissistic parents), adult children of immigrant parents, highly sensitive or emotionally intense people, queer folks, Jews, and/or folks who are guided by anti-oppressive politics.

*I’d like to credit and send my appreciation to Jules Pashall @fat.as.the.sea (on instagram) for sharing their language/framing of what supports us as “buoys.”

key words: somatics, embodiment, trauma, somatic therapy, people pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, emotional abuse, narcissistic parent, highly sensitive person (HSP), queers, Jews, anti-oppressive lens