An Integrative Approach to Therapy: Tending Mind, Body & Spirit
My work as a therapist is rooted in psychodynamic theory, which emphasizes the unconscious or what is not ordinarily obvious in our understanding of how we experience life and behave. This means we move slowly and intentionally, spending meaningful time understanding your history—and how the patterns, adaptations, and stories you’ve carried shape your life and inform your reasons for seeking therapy.
In practice, I use psychoeducation as a primary intervention to provide context for why your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors manifest the way they do. Drawing from attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and parts work, we’ll explore how your patterns of connection, protection, and meaning-making formed—and where there might be room for updating.
My extensive history in somatic work as a licensed massage therapist and yoga teacher influences my holistic approach to understanding your whole system. I offer breathwork and mindfulness meditations to support nervous system regulation, increase emotional tolerance, and deepen self-awareness. I am an advocate for the mind-body connection and will draw upon these theories to further support our work together.
In the first five sessions, I meet you in the middle of your process, providing solid ground and a well of compassion for the content you’re tending. As we get to know one another, I gain insight and begin to collaborate with you on better understanding your history, how it’s influenced your life, and what processes toward healing might look like. These sessions forge the therapeutic relationship, which is recognized as the strongest predictor of transformative change in therapy. Our relationship thus becomes a vehicle for repatterning maladaptive behaviors, cognitive distortions, and trauma-informed narratives.
“Relational Neuroscience shows that people cannot reach their full potential unless they are in a healthy connection with others. The brain’s mirror neuron system needs relational input to stay in shape. You need to really “see” other people in an emotional sense and be “seen” in order to keep the mirroring system functioning well; without that input, it’s harder to perceive other people accurately and feel close to them. ”
Tuning the human instrument with curiosity and compassion.
:::: Mind:
Our self-concept is informed by our earliest relational impressions, beginning with our primary caregivers and evolving through formative friendships and romantic partnerships. The quality of these relationships renders the limbic brain, the seat of our emotions, and influences our personal narratives in the neocortex, where language manifests. Dysfunctional relationships combined with both overt and subtle trauma lead to the fragmentation of the Self as a means of psychological survival. When left unattended, the fragments of the Self — or the selves — contribute to instability in the mind, usually in the form of self-deprecating beliefs, anxiety, perfectionism, anger, shame, rebellion, and people-pleasing. Tending the mind thus becomes a practice of gently disentangling the Self from the selves, providing a path toward coherence.
“If emotion is the ground of cognition, then relationships are the tectonic plates that shape the ground. ”
:::: Body:
Before words take shape in the mind, emotions are felt in the body. In the first few years of our lives, this felt sense is our only tool for communicating with and interpreting our surroundings. As language develops, our felt sense becomes overpowered by the mind. This is especially true when the felt sense in the body is dense and hard to metabolize. Life events that conjure experiences of grief, forgiveness, abandonment, and even more positive processes like self-love require a willingness to express feelings of pain, discomfort, healing, and growth in the body. Emotional content left unprocessed by the felt sense reinforces fragmentation and perpetuates a disconnect from our body, sometimes leading to chronic health conditions. In practice, I identify coping mechanisms that block felt sensations and redirect the process into the body to provide comprehensive healing for your whole system.
“Technological innovations have allowed us to examine the molecular basis of emotions, and to begin to understand how the molecules of our emotions share intimate connections with, and are indeed inseparable from, our physiology. ”
:::: Spirit:
The term "psychonaut,” meaning “sailor of the soul,” is used to describe those willing to plunge into the metaphorical underworld of their consciousness in pursuit of transformative healing. Non-ordinary states of consciousness accessed through meditation, sacred plant medicine, fasting, and breathwork are common practices used as tools by the general public’s perception of the modern-day psychonaut. Turning inward toward Self in therapy, too, requires a parallel willingness to surf the waves of our inner sea. As we identify core wounds, address fragmentation, and step onto the path of healing, encounters with something beyond the here and now may begin to occur. Achieved states of awe in nature, increased intuition, symbolic sight, and synchronicities are a few examples of mystical openings. Developing a connection with the great unknown helps regulate the constant uncertainty present in everyday life and can be especially helpful in times of crisis. Drawing on many lineages of wisdom, I take a non-dogmatic approach to spirituality, providing an exploratory space to engage with and delve into the topic.
“Devotion commits a part of our conscious minds to our unconscious, eternal self, which in turn connects us directly to a divine presence. ”
Now Accepting: Individuals and Couples for Virtual Therapy
Specializing in: Attachment, grief, anxiety, depression, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, somatics, trauma, chronic health conditions, psychedelic prep + integration, non-traditional relationship models, and spirituality.
Rates: Individuals, $150 / 53-minute session
Couples, $185 / 75-minute session
Sliding Scale available upon request.
Counseling services are provided under a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate credential (LPCC0023330). These services do not include hands-on bodywork.
Education & Professional Training:
2026: River Course with Dr. Joe Tafur | Psychedelic Therapies & Sacred Plant Medicine
2025: Regis University | Master’s in Counseling | Denver, CO
2021: Ohana Yoga | Yoga Teacher Training | 200 Hours | Denver, CO
2020: Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, 2020 | 100 Hours | Mesa Carrier | Denver, CO
2020: Denver Integrative Massage School, 2020 | 600 hours | Licensed Massage Therapist | Denver, CO
2019: Somah Journeys | Yoga Nidra & Plant Medicine Training | 100 hours | The Sacred Valley, Peru
2018: Ganja Yoga | Teaching Certification | 50 hours | San Francisco, CA
2014: Interchange Counseling Institute | Counseling Certification | 200 Hours | San Francisco, CA
2012: Holy Cow Yoga | Teaching Certification | 200 Hours | Charleston, SC
2010: Coastal Carolina University | Bachelor of Science in Business Administration | Conway, SC
