Talk therapy can be powerful and transformative work. In my work we certainly talk and take time to explore your world through cognitive inquiry ~ though I don’t stop there.

Picture it in terms of channels: Your mind is a radio channel. So we can tune into your mind, and hear all it has to say. Then - in the following moment - we can tune into a different radio station, and listen to your feelings. And another station we feel into your body and feel into its impulses. Perhaps I invite you to stand up and follow one of those impulses. Perhaps we tune into another channel, your sounds or your visualizations, etc. You have access to many channels. So the difference is that in my work I am supporting you to experience yourself (and your challenges) through various levels of your being.

In this approach, we end up coming across many hidden parts that are far less accessible if we just choose to stay in a verbal only mode. It’s through this multi-dimensional freedom, that I support your emerging awareness to expand beyond what your mind is able to predict on its own.

This creates an incredible opportunity for deep and lasting shifts to occur.

In our western culture, we tend to over-value our cognitive/mental realm more than we do our feeling/body realm. This lends towards the paradigm of do more + feel less.

While only feeling deeply, and neglecting our rationality won’t serve us either ~ so the opposite is true.

Our bodies contain wisdom. When we are doing something we know we don’t want to do — there is a feeling in our bodies that alerts us. Sometimes, that alarm is dulled out, and we override ourselves. Our body connects us to our intuition, our visceral power and the love in our hearts.

The objective is to support you in becoming embodied. Embodiment means you:

FEEL your truth
SPEAK your truth
EXPRESS your truth

With your mind, heart, body and soul TOGETHER.

The main differences I’ve experienced with most somatic modalities, is the willingness in Core Energetics to dive into and own our unconscious negativity, or our unconscious inner “NO”.

For example: let’s say you want to change a behavior, such as putting a boundary with someone. But every time you come to it, you slip back into an old pattern and you capitulate again.

You want to change. You know you want to change. You know the behavior isn’t serving you. But you do it anyway. Why?

Often, there is an unconscious force in us that resists changing out of a known way of being. We call these survival patterns. They are places in us that protected us from feeling overwhelming feelings of hurt, fear or anger ~ most often when we were too young to understand why we were feeling that way.

Perhaps it says something like: “NO! I won’t risk the uncertainty of losing connection! I’ll do what you want, if you stay with me”. If we are unable to bring awareness to these place, its powerful energy and what it is protecting underneath ~ it will be very hard to make lasting changes in how we operate in the world.

In this work, I will support you to find the hidden places in you, that may not be pretty or comfortable to see ~ though in seeing them it radically liberates us, and can bring you to your authentic YES.

Catharsis, or moments of full self expression is just one tool that we can use to help unstuck the stuck. It’s not essential, and it’s not the end goal of the work.

It’s role in the process needs to be right sized for each individual. For some, it’s more needed, and for others maybe not at all.

An intense emotional experience is harmful if you don’t have the appropriate grounding and containment to integrate it into your understanding of reality. This is why, for example, some people can have a hard time integrating poorly held, yet intense therapeutic, psychedelic or breathwork experiences. We need to know what we can handle, and an experienced practitioner is a needed guide in these kinds of explorations.

Individual Sessions are a great place to start if you’re looking for focused support, and to move at your own pace. It is a place where deep work can happen in a safe and contained space.

Movement Group is a good place to start if you are wanting to connect with your own body and get in touch with more of your feelings. It’s an accessible group for those who don’t want to make a big commitment of time and travel, and want to try out or deepen into somatic bodywork.

Process Group is a good place for those who want to expand their therapeutic work into the interpersonal realm. It’s for those who want to explore how they show up with others, and discover themselves with the help of a community of fellow adventurers. It tends to gravitate those who have done some inner work prior to joining.

If you’re unsure, the best thing to do is reach out and we can have a 15 minute chat together.