Mindful Individual Psychotherapy & Coaching

Mindful Individual Therapy

Are you seeking to change in ways that you can sustain, to find relief from suffering, or to generate a deeper relationship to your unique intuition and wisdom?

It takes courage to seek support.

I can help.

People come to therapy for many reasons. We struggle with our confidence, we feel stuck, we’re frustrated or overwhelmed by depression, anxiety or grief, we’re challenged in navigating a life transition, we’re confused by our habits, or by how we find ourselves struggling to thrive in an information-flooded society, or perhaps, we feel okay, but uninspired, unclear or sluggish. Some people come to therapy for support with childhood traumas, an addiction, a loss, or for support with painful feelings. Sometimes therapy is sought for an unexpected life challenge that, with help, you become able to navigate with clarity and purpose.

Whatever motivates you to seek therapy, honor yourself for taking a brave step toward your healing and wellbeing.

How I Practice Therapy

Creating a safe environment is where I begin. I see therapy as a collaborative process that can lead you toward a greater capacity for self-awareness, trust, clarity, a sense of meaning and freedom. Life gives us surprising obstacles, which can make us feel stuck, depressed, alone or scared. With therapeutic presence, creativity and guidance, we can change our relationship to obstacles and transform. Our darkest point may mark the moment we realize we want to change.

I use mindfulness practice in therapy sessions to help you make genuine changes. Mindfulness and yoga practices can aid therapy by helping you learn to notice your thinking and sensations as you explore painful material, so that you become skillful in taming your overwhelm when thoughts, emotions and sensations arise that have been keeping you stuck. Together, we’ll work to shift your relationship to your thoughts and sensations, so that you learn to choose how you relate or react to thoughts and situations, rather than feeling paralyzed in fear or beat down.

I use yoga, mindfulness exercises, and creative writing in my practice, and have training in yoga therapy, mindfulness/somatic therapy approaches, gestalt therapy, marriage and family counseling, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the Pragmatic Experiential Method for Improving Relationships, trauma-informed care and Depth Psychology.

People come to see me for support with:

• Anxiety,
• Depression,
• Bipolar Disorder,
• Eating disorders,
• Substance/Behavioral Addiction,
• Self Harm Issues,
• Intimate relationship/marital issues,
• Codependency Issues,
• Life Transition or Relationship Transition,
• Grief,
• Attachment issues,
• Suicidal ideation,
• Issues related to physical/sexual abuse,
• Mental Illness, and
• Spiritual Confusion

I bring warmth and fearlessness, and emphasize exploring your relationships with others, to help you transform any self-defeating patterns you may experience within relationships.

I invite you to contact me for a free 30-minute phone consultation.

Mindful Coaching

Are you interested in learning mindfulness skills that can help you to actualize your goals? Do you want to learn how to attenuate your nervous system so that you can move forward with focus and self-directed productivity? Maybe you are feeling unsatisfied with your daily activities or life direction, and feel that a mindfulness/yoga oriented coach could help you to clear away mental obstacles and put your goals into action.

We live in a world that is full of information, seemingly coming from all directions. Information flooding can feel confusing and overwhelming. Mindfuless coaching with me can help you to learn how to sit with yourself in the present moment, moment-after-moment, which will help you to notice your habitual thinking, become less distracted, and develop increasing awareness of your deep intentions.

Mindfulness coaching with me is focused on 1-2 clear life goals. Sessions and at-home assignments are structured to help you meet these goals. I use mindfulness exercises, yoga, creative writing, and accountability practices to support you in discovering the patterns of thinking and activity that consistently block your ability to meet your goals. As we learn to notice the present moment through mindfulness practices, we become more aware of our autopilot thinking, which allows us to take more thoughtful action based on our true intentions and priorities. In noticing these patterns within ourselves more and more often, we become able to transform feelings of stuckness into productivity.

As with any new practice, learning the skills of mindfulness requires repeated practice. Many people come to me saying that they know this, but they don’t know how to get themselves to practice daily mindfulness exercises! In this coaching practice, we will explore your obstacles, and work in session with mindfulness practices to help you discover how to create and reach attainable goals.

Through mindfulness practice, you are not only creating a calmer nervous system, you are rewiring your emotional habits and patterns of thinking, so that you become more aware of what you do. This training can create powerful changes that can support you in manifesting the goals that matter to you most. It is easy to live our lives based on automatic habits; our consumer culture often rewards us for doing so. Mindfulness practice can help you to become aware of these habits, to choose how you do or do not engage in them, and to find joy and fulfillment along the way.

For more information about my specific training, modes of psychotherapy/yoga, and influences, please read.

I invite you to contact me for a free 30-minute phone consultation.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

― Winston S. Churchill

I welcome all genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, religions and other demographics to my practice.