“ The therapist must strive to create a new therapy for each patient.”
Whether you are navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, or simply feeling stuck, you do not have to move through it alone. I offer individual and couples therapy in a warm, genuine, and non-judgmental space where you can speak openly, deepen your understanding of yourself, and reconnect with a stronger sense of trust in yourself and in your relationships.
My approach is relational, psychodynamic, and deeply informed by the body. Central to my work is the understanding that the body is where our experience is lived and held. It is both the container and expression of our emotional history, relationships, struggles, adaptations, and capacity for healing. Experiences that cannot yet be expressed in words may emerge through sensation, tension, movement, posture, breath, or a feeling of disconnection from the body.
In psychotherapy, we attend to the whole person, including the emotional, physical, mental, relational, and deeper inner dimensions of experience. Together, we may explore patterns that repeat, the continuing influence of past relationships, and the ways the nervous system has learned to respond to stress, vulnerability, and connection. By listening to both words and the body’s quieter forms of communication, therapy can create space for experiences that have been held outside awareness to become more understandable and integrated.
Body awareness, movement, and, where appropriate, bodywork can become part of this process. These approaches are not separate from emotional exploration, but another way of entering into it. They can help us notice where the body holds effort, protection, or restriction, while also discovering its capacities for pleasure, vitality, resilience, and change. Bodywork can offer a direct and gentle way of attending to embodied experience, supporting greater ease, integration, and a more trusting relationship with the body.
For those seeking a more immersive experience, The Spiral Way retreats offer an extended process of embodiment, presence, creativity, and movement. Stepping outside the rhythms and demands of everyday life creates an opportunity to slow down, listen more closely to the body, and engage with experience through movement, reflection, imagination, and creative exploration. The retreats provide a supportive setting in which participants can deepen their connection to themselves, others, and the living world around them.
In individual therapy, this work can foster greater self-awareness, emotional healing, and a deeper connection to your authentic self. In couples therapy, we explore not only what partners say to one another, but also the embodied patterns that arise between them, such as withdrawing, bracing, pursuing, becoming overwhelmed, or losing a sense of connection. By recognizing these patterns with curiosity rather than blame, couples can strengthen communication and create more space for honesty, safety, care, and intimacy.
My hope is to offer a thoughtful and grounded space in which mind and body can be approached together, allowing healing and meaningful change to unfold gradually and at a pace that feels manageable.
My background includes a Master’s in Theory and Criticism and a Master’s in Social Work, along with additional training in body-mind psychotherapy, movement and creative arts therapy, depth psychology, supervision, and psychodynamic couples therapy. I am Certified Ilan Lev Method Practitioner, a movement-based bodywork practice that supports release, integration, and embodied awareness.
