
"Healing comes through embodiment of the soul."
– Marion Woodman
Healing begins with the smallest spark—the quiet hope that change is possible. Just as an acorn holds the entire oak tree within it, you carry within yourself the potential for transformation.
Therapy is a space where this unfolding can happen. It is a relational process—one that nurtures growth with care, attention, and time. If you're feeling the pull toward healing, let’s talk about how therapy can support you.
I don’t really have an elevator pitch. I’m a highly relational therapist whose work is informed by psychodynamic theory and depth oriented (Jungian) therapy, with additional extensive training in trauma informed practices, somatic and attachment based approaches. I love my work– it is heart and soul centered. It is rooted in a depth and breadth of clinical work, in research, training and practice of evidenced based therapy modalitites. And yet, it is transformed and a new with each new therapy hour, and how this unfolds in a new time and space at the right pace, and how you experience this, with all the complexity and uniqueness you bring with yourself.
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
― Joseph Campbell
"Soul-making is not the same as personal development or self-improvement; it is the creative engagement with the images that life brings to us, and the realization that these images are a response to the soul’s need for expression."
— James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
“Jungian play therapy is a dynamic, creative approach to counseling children that emphasizes symbolic meaning.” -Eric Green
In the The Red Book, Jung wrote, "I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul." In poet Robert Bly’s book A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self he encapsulates the shifting, shadowy parts of The Shadow in the image of “the long bag we drag behind us” that contains all the discarded parts of ourself. While we often think of the shadow as our repressed fears, rage, or shame, Jung and Bly also spoke of the golden shadow—the brilliance, creativity, or power we project onto others but struggle to own for ourselves.
The cosmos in which we place youth and through which we insight youth will influence its pattern of becoming. –James Hillman
"Sandplay therapy utilizes a small tray of wet or dry sand in which you are invited to create scenes using miniature objects--a nonverbal communication of their internal and external worlds” (Labovitz Boik, and Goodwin 2000). I believe that we all have an intrinsic creative capacity that is essential to our feelings of aliveness. As a result of overwhelming experiences we can feel cut off from this capacity. Sandplay is a way to safely and in a protected, safe relational space, begin to renew contact with this process.