Have you ever felt a sense of peacefulness while in nature, a temple, a meditation hall or a church? Or, while sitting in a public place have you felt as though someone was looking at you from behind and when you turned around you realized you were correct? In both instances you were feeling energy. You were experiencing the unseen, non-verbal energetic dynamics that are occurring all of the time.

Everything that is alive is made up of and radiates energy. Energy is the life-force, prana, or chi that runs through every single cell and the meridians in our body. Energy is non-material; it sets the foundation for physical manifestation and health.

Energy healing is a holistic approach to support one’s personal transformation and well-being. It combines psychological and spiritual processes with advanced hands-on techniques to facilitate deep self-contact and activate one’s capacity to heal. Energy healing promotes one’s life-force to flow more naturally and to rebalance, allowing a more viable experience of health on all levels.

Via table work one receives an increased flow of life-force. Energy stagnation is cleared, obstacles are loosened and a greater sense of balance and ease may result.

Whether you want to learn tools of relationship building, transform old patterns, vitalize physical well-being, express your creativity, or manifest your greatest soul’s longing, this work can change your life.

Specifically, my work is a culmination of over fifteen years of study in object relations, transpersonal, developmental, and somatic psychology, character defense structures, hakomi, gestalt, shamanism, and Barbara Brennan's advanced energy healing techniques. It is a holistic form of healing based upon a personal growth model that includes the energetic, emotional, mental and (if you are interested) spiritual realms. My multi-modal method enhances your awareness and sensate experience of mind-body connections. There is an opportunity to learn new skills to transform these beliefs, blocks and defenses. You can free up your life-force and embrace your full potential.

The work is about empowering you to understand and experience new ways of living your life, not about coming to be “fixed”. It is about opening to what lies within you in the moment. Each session is unique; it depends upon what you bring, what you truly need and what unfolds.

Our sessions create an opportunity to explore the conscious and unconscious experience of who you are and who you are not. By “who you are”, I refer to the aspects of your being that hold clarity of your true needs, potency of your self-expression, wisdom of your longings and innate strengths. By “who you are not”, I refer to internalized critical voices that judge your thoughts, actions and inaction, limiting belief systems and habitual patterns of defense that no longer serve you. All of this is held in your psyche, energy field and body musculature. Through attending to these aspects in a safe and trusting space new experiences, feelings and insights emerge. Transformation actively occurs.

Whether you are facing a health crisis, relationship conflict, job and career transition, or the challenge of unexpressed creative gifts my work will support you. And, you do not have to be experiencing challenges in your life to benefit from my work. If you feel content and want to explore your curiosity of energetic healing or want to expand upon your gifts, my work will be a catalyst for you as well.

When the session includes table work, you are fully clothed and lie on the massage table. I read your energetics and begin the healing accordingly.The energy work balances, clears and charges your field. Many advanced healing techniques may be used (see list below) to facilitate your healing and to support deep self-contact. Sometimes the work occurs in silence and other times dialogue is used.

Healing work supports your nervous system to relax and your endocrine, respiratory, digestive, and circulatory systems to move towards greater homeostasis.

My psychological orientation combines psychoanalytic, somatic, and transpersonal approaches. Energetically, I work with:

Yes! My work elicits transformation on several levels. If you attract and repeat the same relationship dynamics then there is a habitual pattern set in your psyche, nervous system, musculature and energetic field.

There are psychological and energetic blueprints created in the psyche from early childhood that shape our interpretation and experience of the world. Growing up in our unique family system, school environment, culture, religion and gender we all learn to adapt our behavior to respond to challenges of childhood. We do this in order to preserve the relationships that we depend upon for survival.

As children we choose to constrict our aliveness when we fear that our parent, or care-provider, will retract love. We swallow our words, recoil our tendency to reach out for contact, or diminish our enthusiastic spontaneous gestures. If we receive the message that we are loved only when quiet or when we are “happy” we find ways to cope. Instead of running to our parents to be held while crying, we may hold in our tears by tightening our throats, inhaling only shallow breaths and tightening our jaws. We learn to constrict our life-force, our muscles, our emotions and our fullness in order to adapt. Over time these responses become habitual, unconscious, and limit our spontaneous expression. They become the patterns that run our lives as adults and affect our present day relationships.

The combination of counseling with energetic work can shift embedded behavior and belief systems. This provides an opportunity to engage in new behavior within your relationships, beginning with your relationship to yourself. My work holds a compassionate space for your full experience to be welcomed.