Awakened Heart Healing

Body-Mind-Spirit based therapy for Highly Sensitive People

With over 15 years of experience working with a diversity of people in various community mental health settings to include residential treatment, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, crisis centers and private practice, I have found my passion is working with people who have highly sensitive temperaments. As a fellow HSP, I have my own unique lived experience in understanding and learning to navigate the nuances and the superpowers of the highly sensitive person.

I use a therapeutic approach that infuses a Humanistic lens with Family Systems Theory, Polyvagal Theory education, Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR, and Mindfulness Practices along with other modalities as appropriate, to foster an emotionally attuned space for brave people to make transformational changes in their lives. I am trauma informed, culturally sensitive and an LBGTQIA+ ally.

I believe that each person has everything they need within themselves to create positive change and to live their fullest lives. I am here to work as a guide to support the acknowledgement and release of trauma with compassion. I am passionate about helping others learn from their past challenges and to cultivate a cohesive narrative of their lives which empowers them to live in their highest expression of themselves. The foundation of this work is engaging people to cultivate secure attachment within the self and in relationship using the therapeutic relationship as a secure base.

I am here to help you navigate making changes in your life and to guide you on your path to access the clarity, peace and wisdom that has always existed within you.

I work best with people who are willing and open to using self-compassionate, mindfulness based, experiential practices to get in touch with their emotions and their higher consciousness. In my personal and professional experience, I’ve learned that the more we are in our minds, intellectualizing our emotions, the further away we are from actually feeling through them and healing our pain. Therefore, we get stuck in our minds and in our misery. My hope is that the more we learn to immerse ourselves in our bodily experience and navigate our heart center, the more we can feel through the tough stuff. The wisdom that lives in our bodies helps guide us through any difficulty.

Every circumstance we experience is here to teach us. With any life change comes the potential for transformation and growth.