HOW I WORK

Intake

I want as much information as possible about you so that I can prepare to meet you in your fabulous, complex entirety. Thus, we begin with an intake session when you first schedule a session with me. This is your opportunity to tell me anything you want me to know about you, past, present and future. This conversation is confidential, as is all of our work together.

Assessment

Both in-person and remote sessions are focused on assessment: the visual, verbal, and (if possible) hands-on exploration of the unique movement, structure, texture and energetic signature of your experience of embodiment. In a first hands-on session, we create a moving, multidimensional map of your body as I perceive it and, much more importantly, as you perceive it. 

The ongoing process of assessment is nonlinear and unpredictable, as contact with each layer reveals the next perfect point of contact. What I'm looking for is a clear sense of four main areas of interest and how they interact:

1. Your biochemistry: the health of your body at a cellular level;

2. Your biomechanics: the evolving structure of your body, as created by your constitution, habits of movement and posture over time;

3. Physical scarring from any previous injuries that affects your body’s sensations, free movement, fluid flow and energy, as well as the energetics underlying those scars;

4. Somatic content: the ways your body has formed around the presence of vital emotional memory.

In looking for what’s moving and what’s not moving in your body, what's on the surface and what’s communicating from beneath the surface, we come to a sense of what the first layer offering itself up to our attention might be. This is where we begin. 

Treatment

As I attune myself with the embodied awareness of each person I work with, the client meets and guides me with their breath, attention, movement, and verbal feedback, and together we work to liberate what’s stuck and witness what wants to be known. 

I recognize the physical body as the soul manifest in material form. As such, I consider it an honor to be given such intimate access, and my work is to show up with the skill, presence, deep respect and unconditional love that such honest revelation rightly deserves. 

Strategy

Within the first session, the connection between myself and the client clarifies. If it’s a good connection and we both wish to continue to work together, we make a plan. To all of my regular clients, I offer continuing guidance in planning and monitoring the progress of an in-depth healing strategy, as needed. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions, and I maintain a referral network of therapists, doctors, naturopaths, acupuncturists and other healing professionals in order to be able to recommend trusted and capable specialists to clients for ongoing support as needed.