Body-Based Psychotherapy

I’m a somatic, mindfulness‑oriented psychotherapist practicing in Boulder, CO. My work is client‑centered and grounded in the belief that healing unfolds most naturally when we slow down, listen inwardly, and meet ourselves with curiosity and compassion. 

In our sessions, I bring an attuned, steady presence that emphasizes safety, pacing, and choice. I draw on inviting you into an open and safe relational space along with using body‑based practices to help you reconnect with your inner experience and to create an inner environment that feels kinder, more open, and trusting.

It’s clear to me that the core trajectory toward mental health is an improved relationship with yourself. My experiential, body-based approach can lead to more than a re-conceptualizing of one’s idea of oneself. Underneath, the very quality of being in relationship with yourself can change for the better. The goal is to not to change only how you define yourself, but to transform how you experience yourself.

A central part of my work is using Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing method, a gentle yet powerful way of accessing the “felt sense,” the subtle bodily knowing that often holds more truth than our thoughts alone. Focusing is a way of listening to yourself through body
awareness. 

As we use Focusing as a part of our sessions, you may find that it results in knowing yourself better, where you are more able to sort out what you feel and want, and more able to realize and then shift the underlying negative thoughts, emotions and behavior you hope to change.

Finally, there is a spiritual component to what I am describing. My approach is based in the conviction that we don’t need to add anything or become something more than who we are to reach toward our potential, but rather the goal is to remove the obstacles in the way. Through client-centered therapy along with body-based practices, you might find that you are able to let go of negative thoughts, emotions and beliefs, clearing the way for a more vibrant, loving, confident, and natural dimension of who you are to emerge. I believe that the purpose of therapy is to become more and more established in this liberated Self.

Specializations

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Trauma
• Insomnia
• Self-growth