Discover Contentment.

To discover contentment we start with an intention to release that which no longer serves. Working collaboratively as a team, we will take a journey to discover the most suitable methods to facilitate your ability to listen to, and trust your self, so that you might live a life that feels centered, grounded, less troubled and less reactive.  Any kind of personal growth provides "side-effects" that may feel uncomfortable at first; but with practice, lasting and meaningful change is attainable and ultimately leads to more balanced, and joyful experiences. 

Bottom up Practices for Better Experiences.

“Your body is a truth detector. Your mind can play tricks on you; but your body keeps the score.”

Somatic and emotional awareness are essential for healing from the short and long term effects of alcohol and other substance use. It takes practice to develop body awareness and self-regulation. We start resourcing with empirically based cognitive-somatic and energy psychology techniques proven to give rise to a persistent experience of the self as aware and calm, even in the “storm.”

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a scientifically based transformational therapy relying on the human brain having an inherent ability to find healing from emotional trauma. It aims to access and process traumatic experience by tracking the original sequence of physiological responses that occurred when the deep brain was alerted to threat or attachment disruption. DBR focuses on how trauma affects the deeper layers of the self. Emphasis is placed on core emotional responses. DBR works with the foundational emotional pain beneath dissociation or fragmentation, including PTSD and CPTSD.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) has been developed in Scotland by Frank Corrigan, MD, FRCPsych. The DBR treatment sequence releases energetic shocks from traumatic experiences that the body has stored as physical holding, tension and pain. The DBR sequence is also successful in dismantling triggers that lead to emotional and behavioral reactivity and very often, panic. I began training with Dr. Corrigan in 2019, adding Advanced Intensive DBR Training with Alexander Technique Interweaves in 2024 in a Edinburgh, Scotland training led by Dr. Frank Corrigan and Martin Warner.

Sound Therapy

"One of the best ways to alter dysfunctional patterns is to administer therapeutic doses of frequency specific energy in the form of vibration.”      ~Richard Gerber, MD

Sound therapy uses very particular frequencies to assist vagal system regulation to strengthen energy flow in the body.  Instruction in sound therapy techniques using Solfeggio, Fibonacci, OM tuning forks, weighted body tuners, and Tibetan singing bowls will be provided as part of developing personalized self-care practices.

Fibonacci vibrational ratios are known to create balance in the left and right hemispheres of the brain, promote vagal nerve toning and alleviate symptoms associated with anxiety, addiction and PTSD. If you are blocked creatively or feeling the need for alternative solutions to challenging situations, Fibonacci Sound Spiral Sessions are for you.

People receiving Fibonacci Ratio Sound Sessions often report feeling a bit high afterwards. John Beaulieu ND, Ph.D has theorized that sound directly accesses the pineal gland (a spiral shaped gland) in the brain often referred to as the doorway to higher consciousness and spirit, hence, the experience of being in an “altered” state after a session without the use of the mood altering substances or other chemicals.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT does not operate under Western psychology’s assumption of “healthy normality.” ACT operates under the assumption that the psychological processes of a normal human mind are often destructive. ACT assists individuals in accessing the transcendent sense of self known as self-as-context—the self that is always there, observing and experiencing and yet distinct from thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories. The objective of ACT is not to eliminate difficult feelings but to create scaffolding that prevents an overreaction to them, and avoid situations where they are invoked. The effect is a better connection to personal truth, because if we can FEEL we can CHOOSE. And if we can choose, we are free.

Energy Psychology

Energy Psychology is a blanket term for cognitive somatic approaches to therapy, with more than one hundred fifty published peer-reviewed research papers, on anxiety, trauma, depression, weight control, and other topics. Energy Psychology includes Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping), the Daily Energy Routine, and Trigger Point Therapy (TPT). Energy psychology fosters self-reliance and self-mastery through personal practice of specific techniques that use the body’s innate capacity for healing and wellness.