Body-Centered Psychotherapy - An integrative, wholistic approach to healing
An Integrative Method for whole-being healing and embodiment…
My integrative and body-centered approach combines the latest advances in trauma focused therapies with the best in evidenced-based care to help clients experience whole-being healing and embodiment.
My integrative method is tailored to what works and resonates for you at this time to help you shed the shame of the past, heal core wounds of unworthiness and make direct contact with your wholeness.
So you can take on the potential of a future Self that is more whole, more authentically expressed, alive in your heart and awake in your body-mind.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Compassionate Inquiry, Somatic Therapy, and Realization Process embodied meditation work at the somatic level and are approaches that facilitate deeper contact by releasing trauma within the nervous system as well as the fascia, where trauma constricts access to our deeper being.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapeutic technique that uses bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, to process and alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. This approach helps reduce the emotional intensity of past experiences, enabling the brain to reprocess trauma. EMDR is supported by the World Health Organization as an effective method for healing trauma and numerous other mental health conditions. It is recognized for its ability to accelerate the healing process from psychological stress and trauma.
Neuroscientists are now calling the right hemisphere, the “embodied brain”. I employ an integrative compassionate approach when I facilitate EMDR sessions, in which I interweave somatic experiencing exercises as well as practices from the realization process, to help my clients inhabit the body more deeply and refine their attunement within the body.
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Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that focuses on uncovering the hidden origins of trauma and chronic conditions. This method guides clients through a process of self-discovery by gently questioning and exploring painful emotional territories, facilitating deep personal insight. The technique emphasizes a non-judgmental and accepting atmosphere, encouraging profound healing and connection with one's authentic self.
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The Realization Process is an innovative system of meditation practices that facilitate embodied nondual awakening, uncovering an ever-present spacious stillness pervading your whole body and environment. Developed by psychotherapist and nondual teacher Judith Blackstone, Ph.D., these sitting, standing, lying, and gentle movement exercises help you become more present in the whole internal space of your body.
Being more embodied allows you to come into deeper contact with yourself, others, and your environment. The Realization Process helps refine your human capacities, such as physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, understanding, and perception. Using precise techniques to open the subtle energy centres and channels, you will also cultivate your essential qualities of being, such as awareness, self-expression, love, power, and vitality.
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Nature-Based Therapy is relational and systemic,
Drawing on the importance of a healthy relationship system and an inherent relationship to our ecological world.
Nature-based therapy draws on attachment research which highlights the crucial need to have secure connections with others, in order to have the confidence to grow and explore one’s potential in the world.
Our nature-based therapy sessions and embodied-nature meditation classes encourage you to attune to nature as a grounded mentor, which both serves in regulating the nervous system and deepens one's connection with the true Self.
Working with your whole being in this way, expands the body-mind connection and gives you access to your intrinsic, compassionate nature to truly recover from relational trauma, realize true belonging and embody wholeness so that you can cultivate conscious, secure relationships.
Research shows that the relationship between a client and therapist outweighs any modality-no matter how ‘effective’ the therapeutic modality is purported to be. Its effectiveness falls short without a secure connection with one’s therapist.
It’s likely that our paths have crossed because you are ready to do the courageous work of going deeper, into your body to release what traditional talk therapy hasn’t been able to reach or release — and exact real, lasting change.
I am not a traditional therapist.
The therapy I provide is relational and holistic, including the body and spirit - because we cannot relate wholly if the body is not included.
For you to go deep, you need someone that holds a grounded, safe and compassionate space. Someone that orients you inward into your body to work with disentangling insecure relational patterns, to access the subconscious, to learn the tools necessary to activate safety in your nervous system, to release the trauma in your fascia, to find and rest in your core—which includes your deeper heart, and to attune to fundamental consciousness pervading your whole body. I am able to offer this to my clients because I’ve found that depth and security within my own body.
You may feel more understood, more received, more inspired and encouraged by knowing …
I have walked the path from...distrusting to discerning; resentment to understanding; powerlessness to inner freedom and conscious embodied-action; self-hatred to self-compassion; unworthy to worthy; fragmented to more whole.
So as effective and powerful as any of the above modalities may be, I know that they are empowered by my integrity along with our capacity to connect in a way that feels safe and honoring of what you need now.
Relational wounding is healed in safe relationship – which is why creating a safe container for my clients to courageously explore unchartered territory within their body-mind is foundational to our work together.
My goal is for my clients to leave feeling more empowered and more in contact with who they really are, more whole.
And it would be my honour and joy to guide you on your whole-being journey.
Working with Me Privately
I am licensed to offer trauma therapy and clinical counselling in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
Clients from other parts of the world can see me in my capacity as a consultant or mentor. Consulting and mentorship clients do not receive insurance reimbursement and is contingent upon you being mentally and behaviorally stable enough to not need more formal mental health treatment.
If my invitation to work together feels resonant, please reach out and book a consultation to explore the possibilities of working together.
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A Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in British Columbia, Canada, is a certified professional trained to provide therapeutic services to individuals, families and groups focusing on mental health and wellbeing. These counsellors hold a minimum of a Master’s degree in counselling psychology or a related field and are licensed by the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). This certification assures adherence to rigorous ethical standards and ongoing professional development. RCC’s in BC utilize diverse psychotherapeutic techniques, customizing their approach to meeting the specific needs of their clients.
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These rates do not include GST and apply to payment via paypal, credit card, cash or cheque.
50 min/$168
75 min/$210
90 min/$252
2-hrs/$336
30 min check-in session: $100
Contact me for information about mentorship packages and rates, and payment plans for 3 hour and 6 hour EMDR intensives.
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We can meet outdoors in the openness of nature, stay in the comfort of a cozy office, or you can stay in your house and we can meet online.
Office Location:
4701 Hastings Street, Burnaby BC V5C 2K8
