Treatment Modalities

Our trauma, pain, grief, and experiences of human suffering do not exist in a vacuum. Decolonial and Liberation Centered Therapy confronts and addresses the deep wounds of colonization, oppression, and marginalization. It acknowledging ancestral wounds, collective wounds, and intergenerational trauma. I work alongside you to reclaim your power, relationship to land, spirit, community, and self. Addressing the trauma at its root, de-pathologizing the human experience, and affirming indigenous forms of healing.

"Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy, or EMDR, is a type of therapy best known for its effectiveness in helping people process trauma. It utilizes a mix of strategies, including bi-lateral stimulation (such as eye movements or tapping) to assist in healing trauma. EMDR opens a window for a person to reach back to find when a core negative belief (such as "I am a bad person") got formed and in processing through all the memories that piled onto that belief and resolving that trauma. It offers an evidence-based means of working through trauma, using something other than traditional talk therapy. Many find it healing."

- Description from Psychology Today

Trauma Informed Therapy recognizes and makes space for how past and or current trauma effects your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual, well-being. Together we work to identify, process, and heal the painful experiences that may be holding you back or keeping you stuck. We will work to re-build a sense of safety by utilizing tools and strategies to help you heal and reclaim your life. I also utilize an attachment lens to look at the ways our trauma impacts our ability to feel safe and secure, communicate, regulate, set boundaries, and more in relationship. Most of our trauma happens in relationship therefore I believe healing needs to happen in relationship.

Mindfulness based therapy helps us increase our tolerance and compassionate acceptance towards our thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Mindfulness introduces a non-judgemental awareness of our experience in the here and now. This can help you get unstuck from unhelpful, overwhelming, or destructive patterns and create lasting resilience. Mindfulness teaches you how to be present with difficult emotions, thoughts, and sensations, while increasing your ability to cope with them, so they no longer overwhelm you. I often incorporate inner child healing work with a mindfulness based approach keeping you grounded and centered while you connect to painful moments of the past to rewrite the narratives and create lasting change.