My credentials...
I’m a Registered Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in social work and a decade in private practice.
My work has been shaped by trauma-informed, body-based and experiential approaches, including extensive training in Somatic Experiencing®, the framework developed by Peter Levine.
I’m also a visual artist and someone who feels deeply connected to animals and the natural world. Creativity, nature and relationship all influence the way I understand healing and the way I work with people.
A little more about me...
My connection to this work is personal too. My own experiences with trauma and PTSD changed the way I understand healing and gave me a deep respect for the ways we adapt, protect ourselves and find our way back to ourselves.
Art has been an important part of my own healing, and my training in expressive arts therapy strengthened something I had already experienced firsthand: sometimes understanding comes through an image, movement, sensation or something we create before we can put it into words.
My somatic work has also been deeply influenced by Peter Levine’s work. I’ve had opportunities to learn within his teaching lineage and to meet him personally, and that perspective continues to shape how I understand trauma, the nervous system and the body’s capacity for change.
I find profound meaning and restoration in nature and in my connection with animals, especially dogs and horses. I’m endlessly curious about people, what shapes us, what we carry and what helps something new become possible.
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