I feel privileged to be able to share a space with clients and support their natural ability to move towards healing and wholeness. We forget we know what we need and let beliefs about ourselves restrict our being. We will explore your story through your words, emotions and body. I combine different methods to understand this story and find healing.
iNFANT MENTAL HEALTH
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An infant develops their understanding of the world in the arms of their parents. Some infants and parents easily connect in this space yet for others it can be more difficult. Infant mental health practice helps strengthen the relationship between a parent and very young child. Infant mental health services can help with events that may impact the parent child relationship. These can include difficult or unplanned pregnancies, perinatal and postpartum depression, newborns with feeding, sleeping or soothing issues, children who are born with special needs, children who have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, parents or caregivers who have little social supports, or parents or caregivers that have experienced mental health, substance use or domestic violence issues.
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irest Yoga nidra
Based on teachings of meditation, iRest is an evidence-based transformative practice that leads to psychological, physical, and spiritual healing and well-being. Its practice is integrative as it heals the various unresolved issues and traumas that are present in your body and mind, and restorative as it enables you to recognize your innate peace of mind that is always present amidst all changing circumstances of life. iRest provides you with tools to help you relax deeply, release stress, increase resiliency, improve your interpersonal relationships and provide you with greater mastery and control in your life.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an integrative psychotherapy that is highly effective in reducing the impact of past distressing events. Trauma from our past can alter the way we interact in the present and can have a profound impact on how we view the world. EMDR has been extensively researched for the treatment of trauma but therapists have found success in utilizing EMDR to help treat panic attacks, complicated grief, dissociative disorders, disturbing memories, phobias, pain disorders, performance anxiety, stress reduction, addictions, sexual and/or physical abuse, body dysmorphic disorders, personality disorders.
PARENTING
We all want the best for our children. There are numerous parenting how-to guides but it can be difficult to understand how this information applies to your child and their unique challenges. Common developmental behaviors can be challenging and also confusing to understand what your child actually needs. All parents make mistakes in meeting their children's needs as there is no such thing as perfect parenting. All parents bring into relationship with their child, their history of being parented and this can make meeting your child's needs even harder. By participating in family therapy, parents and caregivers can greater understand their children's needs and then more effectively manage behaviors while strengthening the relationship between a parent and child.
REFLECTIVE consultation
Reflective consultation is an essential component for clinicians and multidisciplinary providers working with very young children and their families. It is a tool used for professional development that acknowledges the unique developmental needs of infants and toddlers with the knowledge that all learning occurs within relationship. Reflective consultation is a scheduled, consistent time to slow down and explore the parallel process between a provider and family. It explores the emotional content of providing services to very young children and their families and the providers own emotional reactions. Through reflective consultation, providers are able to explore these elements and in turn provide more effective services to families.