My Approach

Therapy is a collaborative effort to help you find the words, images and stories to express the truth of who you are. I have great faith in our innate guiding wisdom to expand our awareness of our thoughts, desires, dreams and feelings, while growing our capacity for self-acceptance and love. I know that under optimal conditions, in safe, stable relationships, we flourish.

I practice an integrated form of psychotherapy, anchored in embodied relationship in the present moment. My experience and training is rooted in Eastern and Western approaches to therapy that include: body-based psychotherapy (Hakomi), Zen meditation, transpersonal voice dialogue, Gestalt, Jungian and archetypal psychology, family systems and adolescent therapy, cross-cultural perspectives, intersubjective, humanistic, and existential psychology. My meditation practice is the foundation of my work as a therapist. Through meditation I bring an evolving understanding of the universal qualities of being human in relationship.

Integral psychotherapy refers to an all-embracing psychology that has it’s foundation in Integral Theory and practice. This approach synthesizes interior (individual and collective) aspects of life—including culture and spirituality—the  inner revolution of our dynamic unfolding, while taking into account external influences like biological, environmental, social and global systems. In practice this means, I act as a guide to help you understand your inner life–the feelings, thoughts, dreams and states-of-awarenesss–and outward circumstances–including familial and social conditioning–that influence your life. Ultimately, I hope you leave therapy awake to your feelings and desires, and a greater sense of being present and securely grounded in relationships and the world.