Counseling

In order to best meet you wherever you’re at in your personal and professional growth, we can draw upon several different psychotherapeutic modalities. These include but are not limited to talk therapy, leading edge psychoneurophysiological-based Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems (CIMBS), and Lifespan Integration. All methods are effective in their own way in addressing a myriad of issues including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, and simple and complex trauma.

In addition, shamanic work and Reiki are excellent complements to combine with counseling.

Talk therapy

Talk therapy is a thorough, compassionate and deep exploration of how your mind and emotions work now in the present, and how you got to be that way.

Profound insights and transformation are possible through skillful talk therapy.  I provide a direct and compassionate approach. 

CIMBS

CIMBS works to release non-verbal and pre-verbally stored trauma.  We all hold some level of traumas in our body which are inaccessible through talk therapy.

CIMBS stands for “Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems.”  The CIMBS process is primarily non-verbal, where the therapist and client are in close eye contact, working together to help the client slow down, pay attention to sensations in the body, and become deeply familiar with emotions and body sensations in the present moment. 

So much of our behavior is about avoiding or running away from these difficult and often unconscious feelings and sensations.  By sitting with and fully experiencing them now, in a welcoming and safe space, old and deep patterns can dissolve, and we can develop new, healthier ways of experiencing the world.

Clients often find the CIMBS process to be emotionally triggering – in a good way.  The intensity of the eye contact and the attention on the present moment, without any distracting content, can bring to light to thoughts and feelings that are often obscured in other therapeutic approaches.  And by repeatedly experiencing these difficult thoughts and feelings, by bringing our adult, mature, and wiser self’s perspective to these old patterns, we develop new, rational, and healthier ways of being.

CIMBS is a highly effective modality that changes the brain and releases trauma from the body.

Learn more

You can find more information about CIMBS at: http://www.complexintegrationmbs.com/clients/

Lifespan integration

“Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based therapeutic method which heals without re-traumatizing,” states Peggy Pace, founder of Lifespan Integration (LI).

While CIMBS works effectively with long-term, chronically stored trauma, LI targets more acute trauma and episodes of abuse, and like CIMBS, is also effective in healing attachment disorders.

Through the use of a Memory Cue List which you develop (with guidance), and a succinct script of a trauma, developed jointly by you and me, LI enables new memories to emerge while allowing the brain and body to reconsolidate and reintegrate the traumatic memory. You gain new insights into how old patterns were shaping limiting behaviors and belief systems. The outcome is the ability to react to current stressors in healthier, new ways.

Learn more

You can find more information about Lifespan Integration at: https://lifespanintegration.com/

Benefits

Counseling is a great entry point for learning to understand yourself and how you came to be who you are today. Through compassionate and clear discussion, you can learn how your past has influenced how your present behavior. Our past is the source of our deeply held thoughts, behavioral patterns, emotions, and belief systems. Everyone needs a skilled, unattached, and objective person to talk to about difficult and challenging situations, life experiences, relationships, and emotions.

Here are some of the ways you may benefit through our counseling sessions:

  • Improved communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Greater self-acceptance and self-esteem.

  • Ability to change self-defeating behaviors/habits.

  • Better expression and management of emotions, including anger.

  • Relief from depression, anxiety or other mental health conditions.

  • Increased confidence and decision-making skills.