Experiential. Relational. Gentle.
More than talk.
Much of what we carry — particularly from childhood — was never put into words in the first place. My work draws on creative, experiential techniques: clay, sandtray, music, puppets, imagery and fantasy. These offer a way for what is unspoken to come into the room safely and be met.
With adults, this same orientation often means slowing down enough to feel what is here, and learning to greet the parts of ourselves we have set aside.
Approaches & Modalities
Gestalt Therapy
Working in the present moment with what is alive and available — feelings, sensations, awareness — to support genuine contact with self and others.
The Oaklander Model
Violet Oaklander's framework for child and adolescent therapy: a respectful, experiential approach built on relationship, contact and creative expression.
Sandplay & Sandtray
An imaginal, non-verbal language for what cannot yet be spoken — particularly powerful for children and trauma work.
Art Therapy
Clay, drawing, painting and collage as ways to externalize, explore, and integrate inner experience.
Family Systems
Looking at the patterns and relationships that hold a family together, and how individual healing belongs within that whole.
Experiential Therapy
Doing rather than only talking — engaging the body, imagination, and senses to bring change that is felt as well as understood.
Humanistic & Psychodynamic
Honoring the whole person, the depth of their history, and the meaning they make of their experience.
DBT & Imago Influences
Skills for emotion regulation and conscious relating, woven in where they support a client's particular work.
"I help facilitate a client's strengthening of self, which leads to more awareness and more choices about how to function successfully in the world."