Individual psychotherapy in San Francisco for trauma, chronic somatic symptoms held in the body, and all the parts of you to be met through Attachment Focused EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and thirty-four years of contemplative practices.
A history of trauma or abuse still shapes how safe the present moment feels.
Chronic pain, tension, or somatic symptoms that no test fully explains.
A sense of being cut off from love, creativity, curiosity, and pleasure.
Wanting to understand what's underneath the anxiety, rage, or numbness.
Patterns around food, substances, or relationships that feel hard to shift alone.
A pull toward deeper meaning, spirit, or expanded states of consciousness.
Every person arrives with a different mix of cultural history, body & mind experiences, and belief systems. Sessions draw from whichever of these serves what's actually in front of us in the present moment.
Trained through the Parnell Institute and EMDRIA-certified, EMDR helps the nervous system finish processing what got stuck, using bilateral stimulation to access your own innate capacity to heal.
Trauma keeps us from being fully alive in the present. We work to clear what's stuck, and consciously fill the space that opens with new, truer ways of being.
For those who want it, meditation, spiritual experience, and Buddhist psychology have a place here, held with the same rigor as clinical work.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A first conversation, a 20 minute Meet & Greet over phone or Zoom.
