My Approach
Experiential therapy is not your grandmother’s therapy, which for most was weekly “talk” therapy sessions for many years, with minimal gains.
Experiential therapy redefines treatment as brief, targeted, and research-based - similar to addressing an acute medical issue. It’s an intense, collaborative process guided by the client’s unfolding experience and focused on lasting, transformative change.
My therapeutic philosophy is anchored in:
Resource Therapy
Coherence Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
Attachment Informed EMDR Methodologies
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
I am trained in and employ the aforementioned and methodologies below, across all therapy sessions, as determined by the needs of the client. There is no formula.
As an integrated therapist, my work is a dynamic collaborative effort between myself and my client: it unfolds, evolves, and goes where it needs to go.
I tailor my therapy to you and your needs, which are different day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute. We are, after all, organic beings. No two sessions will ever look or be the same, but our therapy will build a “flow,” a “rhythm” and “tempo,” which will become familiar.
*These are types of Experiential Therapy, distinguished by its emphasis on action, says Sabrina Romanoff, PsyD, a professor and clinical psychologist in New York City. Romanoff asserts that:
"Action is important because when a person is bodily engaged, they have access to psychological elements they wouldn’t have access to otherwise. Action can also be a precursor to change—by acting in a new way, a person can think in new ways.”
To learn more, watch this brief video:
What is Experiential Therapy? | Experiential Therapy Series - Part 1 of 7
I Address All Manners of Mental Health Challenges
Including but not limited to…
Anxiety & OCD
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Complex Trauma
Attachment-based Trauma
Disassociation / dissociative disorders
Recovering from co-dependency / Narcissistic relationships
Suicidal ideation
Family systems
Eating disorders
Substance use
Sexual dysfunction
Stress-related disorders
Resource Therapy
Resource Therapy is considered a “parts” methodology. In its most simplified version, Disney captured this remarkably well in the film Inside Out* and even in parts of Inside Out 2*.
Why This Therapy is Different:
• Memory Reconsolidation: RT facilitates deep change by working with the brain’s natural healing mechanisms to transform distressing emotional memories.
• Efficient & Targeted: RT is brief, psychodynamically informed, focused, and often produces results more quickly than traditional talk therapy alone.
• Ethical & Client-Centered: The model is respectful, empowering, and grounded in client safety and choice.
**Both of these movies are worth a watch, whether you choose me or not.😊
Clinical Certifications:
Coherence Therapy*
Coherence Therapy is a unified set of methods and concepts for individual, couple and family work that enable a therapist to foster profound change with a high level of consistency.
From the first session, the work is focused on guiding clients to bring awareness to ignored core areas of meaning, feeling, and emotional learning that are generating the presenting symptom or problem. Coherence Therapy makes use of native capacities for swiftly retrieving (and then transforming) the client's unconscious, symptom-requiring emotional schemas which were learned adaptively early in life.
*Master certification in process
Certificates of Training:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR Advanced Training Certificates:
EMDR Child Specialist (9.2023)
EMDR For Kids and Teens (10.2024)
Attachment Informed EMDR (1.2025)
Polyvagal EMDR (9.2024)
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II
Other Methodologies: