Specialties and What to Expect
Ecotherapy
Connection with nature is healing and healthy. I offer therapy in outdoor spaces, particularly those with water, wildlife, and expansive views. Use of nature and exploration of your specific connection to it surfaces throughout therapy. As we work together, you will learn additional ways to practice this healing relationship with the world around us.
Stress and Anxiety
Our modern lifestyle results in high levels of chronic stress. A lot of therapy therefore focuses on identifying specific stressors, and also employing effective coping. This shows up directly in therapy as breathing and other grounding techniques, and practicing effective ways of connecting with nature to find balance.
Traumatic Growth
Trauma is part of life experience, and especially so for first responders. I use your body and mind's natural ability to heal from past trauma. This gradual process of identification, facing, and integrating trauma not only works, but allows healing that alleviates the need for continued reliance on psychoactive substances. Connection to the natural world can play a large role in trauma work.
Meaning and Purpose
Having a sense of meaning and purpose is tremendously healthy. Alternatively, when absent, we lack the engery and motivation to engage with life. This perspective emerges a lot in therapy, and I tend to focus on these factors which often underlie other issues.
