Transformative Telehealth Therapy

Healing Through Telehealth Therapy

I approach mental health with an appreciation for Mystery as a former Christian minister, as much as evidence-based science through graduate training in clinical mental health. I also continue to pursue training related to the neurophysiology, nutrition, and working with trauma and unprocessed emotion in the body.

Working with body AND mind AND the mysterious dimensions of spirit and consciousness, I integrate the principles and practices of multiple modalities I have received training in to support you in your journey. I will help you learn how to use practices like solitude, slowing, breathwork, and mindfulness to foster deep healing and personal growth.

When appropriate, I support the intentional use of psychedelic medicines to facilitate profound and rapid healing and transformation in your personal journey through intentional preparation, compassionate guidance, and skillful integration of whatever is discovered and encountered.

My Therapeutic Approach

Embracing Stillness and Silence

Religious trauma and spiritual abuse can leave us in states of confusion, self-doubt, distrust, and despair. This unique kind of abuse often leaves us questioning our inner thoughts and feelings as much as our identity and personal sense of meaning and purpose, wreaking havoc in our personal and professional lives. I offer a compassionate process of quieting the inner and outer noise and tuning in to the present moment, relying on the body as a crucial messenger of unprocessed emotional content and guide to our deepest needs.

My role is to assist in slowing down the action, welcoming and stabilizing the moment, and offering guidance to learn how to explore and play with the incredible capacities of your system: body, heart, mind, and spirit.

Frequently asked questions

What can you expect with online therapy?

I work with the safe and secure online platform called SimplePractice. Every session with every person is different, depending on what's present in the moment, your familiarity/comfort level with your system, and the mindfulness-based practices that can deepen and explore it. I use my training to offer guidance and create space for you to process and explore, sometimes with classic "talk-therapy", mindful tracking of activated emotion in the body, and other times with little "experiments" and practices to explore and stabilize your inner world.

However, only so much can happen and be accomplished in 60-90 minutes once a week, so I will also offer suggested resources, activities, and practices for you to be able to continue your journey and fully embody and enjoy your life in the space and time between appointments.

How does your therapy work?

Internal Family Systems
In our work together, I aim to embody the 5 P's of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), patience, presence, perspective, persistence, and playfulness so that you can safely cultivate the 8 C's of IFS, curiosity compassion, connectedness, calm, clarity, courage, confidence, and creativity. Within the IFS model, the 8 C's are present when we live and act out of truest and deepest self and self-leadership, a key concept for healing mental and emotional wounds and rediscovering a sense of who we are and the skills to live that out.

Hakomi
Hakomi is a Hopi word that means "where or how I stand in all these places", offers a compassionate orientation to therapy, guided by 5 core principles:
Organicity: We are a living system that naturally seeks health and wholeness
Mindfulness: The path of insight and awareness through the present moment
Nonviolence: Respectful care for the individual without rushing, forcing, or coercion
Mind-Body Holism: The body reflects and reveals the state and needs of the mind
Unity: We thrive when all parts of us are appropriate connected and communicating

Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a science-based model of therapy developed by Peter Levine. SE works with the biological reactions and patterns of human neurophysiology that emerge in response to stress and trauma. These natural reactions and patterns reflect stuck, rigid, or unfinished responses to challenges that were somehow too much, too soon, or came at us too fast for our system to know how to respond appropriately in the moment. These experiences lead to trauma in the present-tense, the fixed patterns of holding or bracing in our bodies and nervous systems, often seen in patterns of fighting or running from perceived threats, collapsing and dissociating in response to feeling overwhelmed, and fawning or attempting to appease our perceived threat or abuser. Similar to Hakomi, using mindfulness and little experiments to identify and explore these responses before integrating or discharging the stuck energy is an important part of the SE process.

How much does therapy cost?

Individual telehealth is offered on a sliding scale that ranges from $60-$140 for a 60 minute session.

Telehealth with neurofeedback support ranges from $80-$160.

Psychedelic support is offered in bundles, ensuring that you receive the appropriate support before, during, and after your journey.

Learn more about the sliding scale here!

Do you work with general mental health conditions and concerns?

Yes and No.
I accept clients with many forms of mental health concerns, but I am choosing to focus my private practice on serving people who experience the mental and emotional challenges related to religious trauma and spiritual abuse, as well as individuals recovering from religious fundamentalism and those looking for healthier expressions of personal spirituality.

It is important to name that spiritual abuse is not only experienced through organized religion. Spiritual abuse results from messages people receive related to being unworthy, unwanted, or not belonging to a group or society. In this way, disenfranchised individuals like neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC individuals experience violence towards their spirit, their deepest sense of self and connection to the sacred that I am happy to support and work with.

These experiences, whether momentary or prolonged, may manifest in symptoms that reflect more common concerns like anxiety, depression, and PTSD/C-PTSD, but often carry a unique shame, confusion, and disconnection that survivors experience as they try to piece their lives back together and reconnect to themselves and the world around them.

If you are still unsure, feel free to schedule a free 20 minute consult call to talk about your challenges and desires.