Integrative Therapeutic Guidance
THE HEART OF MY PRACTICE
This is deep, individualized, relational work grounded in the Comprehensive Resource Model™ (CRM), a neuro-biologically informed approach that honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Drawing from nearly 30 years of clinical experience with complex trauma, dissociation, and early attachment wounding, I offer a space where healing can unfold at the pace your system needs.
Everybody has a Story
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Everybody Knows Pain
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RE-Source ~ RE-Connect ~ RE-Member
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Everybody has a Story · Everybody Knows Pain · RE-Source ~ RE-Connect ~ RE-Member ·
WHAT TO EXPECTTypical sessions are co-created. As a key partner in this work, I will need you to articulate your inner experience as best you can. Early in our work, I will use questions, always with the intention of helping me understand what you are sharing or not sharing. Respect and permission are cornerstone principles I align with and communicate from. Even in deep therapeutic work, you get to have boundaries. Feedback goes both ways and will support where we begin each session. During inner work, as your guide, I will prompt you to access resources both known and unknown to you, offer suggestions as you make decisions, keep time and hold space in the room, attune to you and your experience, support nervous system regulation, and work with what emerges. CRM™ allows access to deep material while maintaining grounding and safety. Every session includes intentional closure, so you leave settled, not activated.
You will often have homework or a skill to practice. To get where you want with Integrative Therapeutic Guidance, your practice of skills outside of sessions is instrumental in supporting your learning, building trust in your body’s innate wisdom as you walk through something new and possibly uncharted, and trusting in the resources that come to you and keep coming.
If there are blocks to your practice outside of therapy, it is strongly recommended that you communicate with me sometime before your next appointment. A brief coaching phone call may make a big difference. I will ask what you have identified as the block, and your experience of it (emotions, judgments, sensations in the body). Have you already tried a skill with what presented as a block? A coaching call is intended to last 15-20 minutes and is at no additional cost to you.
This work is not about fixing. It is about returning to wholeness, at a rhythm that respects your complexity.
An Integrated Approach
This work integrates Modalities and Theories to help you understand how developmental trauma can shape neurophysiology and lived experience. We explore how shock, survival, and regulated states may show up in the body, while also building embodied skills for containment and stabilization. Attention is given to the role of the vagus nerve in supporting regulation, connection, and the way you experience yourself and others.
Depending on your needs, our work together may integrate:
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Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) is a deeply relational, neuro-biologically informed approach that honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit.
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Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Part I.
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RO DBT treatment involves both individual treatment sessions and skills training classes, and clinically targets five OC (over-control) themes: inhibited and disingenuous emotional expression; hyper-detailed, focused, and overly cautious behavior; rigid and rule-governed behavior; aloof and distant style of relating; and high social comparison and envy/bitterness.
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Given what we now know about the neurobiology of PTSD and how the brain processes shock and traumatic experiences, it’s very important that we integrate neuroscientifically-guided therapies into PTSD treatment. Deep Brain Reorienting™ (DBR) is one such treatment. DBR is a neuroscience-based treatment for PTSD that targets the sequence of events that occurred in the brainstem at the time of the traumatic event. At this time, I use DBR to support the release of shock.
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Brainspotting has developed into an in-depth therapeutic process that can be integrated with other healing modalities in either individual, group, or couples therapy. Dr. David Grand believes that “Brainspotting taps into the body’s natural self-scanning and self-healing abilities”. Brainspotting can help process the trauma, which can be the origins of depression, anxiety, phobias, and addictions. Brainspotting is used with all areas of trauma, including survivors of war, natural disasters, and abuse. Among many other applications, Brainspotting is also being successfully utilized with medical conditions, such as traumatic brain injuries, strokes, fibromyalgia, headaches, and preparation and recovery from surgery. Brainspotting is used in CRM when we use eye positions to anchor your felt experience (neurobiology) of a resource. It is used out of session to practice and to more quickly access resources as needed.
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SESSION LENGTH & PRICING75 minutes | $222
90 minutes | $280
2 hours | $333
Longer sessions available upon request
PACINGSession frequency is determined collaboratively. Some clients benefit from 1-2 weekly sessions; others find that biweekly or monthly pacing supports integration later in their process. We will find what works for your nervous system and your life. Typically, the greater your need, the more often you come. If you are genuinely living in distress to the degree it is impacting most areas of your life, I will recommend a minimum of weekly appointments until some quality of life changes are felt, integrated and maintained. You will always be responsible for how often you come regardless of my recommendations.
