modalities

I pull from my trauma-informed somatic training and integrate Breema Bodywork, Relational Somatic Healing (RSH), Sandtray, Mindfulness, Body Scans, Dream Explorations, Breathwork, Guided Imagery, EMDR, and Parts Work inspired by the Internal Family Systems into my work as your therapist.

touch in psychotherapy

When appropriate for your goals and intentions in coming to therapy, we may incorporate Breema Bodywork or Relational Somatic Healing Therapeutic Touch into our work together.

Breema

Breema supports the mind, body, and feelings through meditation, Self Breema, Breema Bodywork, and the Nine Principles of Harmony: Body Comfortable, No Extra, Firmness & Gentleness, Full Participation, Mutual Support, No Judgement, Single Moment/Single Activity, No Hurry/No Pause, and No Force.

There are a few ways you might experience Breema with me. I may guide us through some Self Breema exercises which are like short moving meditations, and with your consent, may offer Breema Bodywork. This can happen at the beginning or end of sessions, or can even be the entire session. It will be an open conversation and we will assess as we go.

Relational Somatic Healing (RSH) Therapeutic Touch

Touch is our very first language and is crucial to our development and survival as mammals. It’s possible you didn’t receive enough touch growing up, or maybe you received the wrong kind of touch for you. This gentle and non-invasive approach will help you access, in the present moment, the parts of yourself that have been wounded in the past. It will give you the opportunity to feel pain and digest it, to break free from the mental and physical stories holding you back.

When we place our hands on someone’s knee, we are not only touching the knee but also the whole person—we are touching their childhood, their inner child, their wounded part, and their resilient part; we are touching their somatic armor, their emotional body, their ancestral body, and their soul. ~Shirley Dvir, founder of RSH

Sandtray

For kids, teens, and adults! With sandtray we will explore your inner world, what is just below the surface of your consciousness, and bring to light what’s been here all along. Sometimes we need to get out of our analytical thinking mind and into our imagination to explore symbolism and see and feel how our patterns and mechanical ways of thinking and being impact us on a daily basis. Sandtray is a fun creative way to get distance between ourselves and the heavy gunk we’ve been lugging around in our psyche.

The hands know how to solve a riddle that the intellect wrestles with in vain. ~C.G. Jung