Sessions...
My clients often tell me that when they are in my office they feel like they are sitting with a good friend. This feedback mirrors the warm, humanistic approach and relaxed nature of my therapeutic style.
Part 1: Your Old Story
We begin each session with the use of tingshas or tibetan chimes. The ringing of the tingshas designate that we have moved into a brief moment of silence before we begin. This time of silence and inner reflection encourages you to take a quiet moment and allow yourself to be fully present in the room and in the moment. This time can be used to quiet the mind, calm the body or invite in any themes and images that might want to get explored during our time together. It can also be a time for mindfulness practices, which include simply "noticing" how you are feeling and "trusting" your own organicity to unfold during the session.
Part 2: Your Current Story
The session time is typically 50 minutes in duration. I have no specific format for how I work, though I am inspired by Emotionally Focused Therapy, Relational, Rogerian, and Gestalt therapy. My work is primarily informed and guided by Hakomi practices. The Hakomi Method at its most basic level, is the therapeutic expression of a specific set of Principles: Mindfulness, Nonviolence, Unity, Organicity and Mind-Body Integration; these tenets inform every aspect of the work. My sessions also include the expressive arts. You may be invited to write a letter to yourself or someone, talk with a family member who has passed, dialogue with different parts of yourself or take the form of an expressed gesture that embodies how you are feeling. Our time together will include the use of imagination, learning to trust your organicity, exploring body language and gestures and developing new core capacities. Each session is different, unplanned and organic. Our time together is rooted in spontaneity, compassion and collaborativity.
Part 3: Your New Story
We will end each session with ringing the chimes as a way to close our time together. About 5 minutes before the session ends I will reach for the chimes and ask for you to join me in synthesizing some of the themes, images, archetypes, emotions etc. that may have become illuminated for you in the session. I may encourage us to spend some time with these themes in closing, set an intention for yourself for the week ahead or place your hand on a part of you that is ailing. Whatever it is that we feel may have been unveiled during the session, can be acknowledged before we come to a close. Your participation is essential in the tailoring of our closing ritual. I encourage you to express something or to share whatever you feel you need to in order to feel resourced at the end of the session.
Part 1: Your Old Story
We begin each session with the use of tingshas or tibetan chimes. The ringing of the tingshas designate that we have moved into a brief moment of silence before we begin. This time of silence and inner reflection encourages you to take a quiet moment and allow yourself to be fully present in the room and in the moment. This time can be used to quiet the mind, calm the body or invite in any themes and images that might want to get explored during our time together. It can also be a time for mindfulness practices, which include simply "noticing" how you are feeling and "trusting" your own organicity to unfold during the session.
Part 2: Your Current Story
The session time is typically 50 minutes in duration. I have no specific format for how I work, though I am inspired by Emotionally Focused Therapy, Relational, Rogerian, and Gestalt therapy. My work is primarily informed and guided by Hakomi practices. The Hakomi Method at its most basic level, is the therapeutic expression of a specific set of Principles: Mindfulness, Nonviolence, Unity, Organicity and Mind-Body Integration; these tenets inform every aspect of the work. My sessions also include the expressive arts. You may be invited to write a letter to yourself or someone, talk with a family member who has passed, dialogue with different parts of yourself or take the form of an expressed gesture that embodies how you are feeling. Our time together will include the use of imagination, learning to trust your organicity, exploring body language and gestures and developing new core capacities. Each session is different, unplanned and organic. Our time together is rooted in spontaneity, compassion and collaborativity.
Part 3: Your New Story
We will end each session with ringing the chimes as a way to close our time together. About 5 minutes before the session ends I will reach for the chimes and ask for you to join me in synthesizing some of the themes, images, archetypes, emotions etc. that may have become illuminated for you in the session. I may encourage us to spend some time with these themes in closing, set an intention for yourself for the week ahead or place your hand on a part of you that is ailing. Whatever it is that we feel may have been unveiled during the session, can be acknowledged before we come to a close. Your participation is essential in the tailoring of our closing ritual. I encourage you to express something or to share whatever you feel you need to in order to feel resourced at the end of the session.
