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Something brought you here. Maybe you have done healing work already — years of it — and something essential still feels just out of reach. The insights have come and gone. The good days are more frequent. And still, underneath it all, there is a version of yourself that hasn't quite arrived yet. Something truer, something freer, something you can almost feel but can't quite touch.
That is not a failure of your healing. That is the threshold.
The passage from what is known — the familiar story of who you are and how you survive — into what is unknown, and through it into what has always been known but not recognized, is real work. It is some of the most disorienting, necessary, and ultimately liberating work a human being can do. And it is exactly the kind of work most therapy wasn't built to hold.
This is.
You might be wondering: why focus on dissociation and trauma if you don't feel like someone who's "really messed up"? Because dissociation isn't a sign of brokenness. It is a natural part of being human — the same disconnection that happens when you daydream or get lost in thought. It exists on spectrum of severity. Day dreaming can be helpful and won’t ruin your life. More severe clinical-level dissociation is another experience all together. The more you know about how you dissociate, the easier it becomes to stay connected to yourself and the world around you. It doesn’t have to be bad in order for working with it to be beneficial. Similarly, trauma work helps whether or not you believe you've experienced trauma: most people who have, don't recognize it as such, and trauma often gets stored and expressed in ways that have nothing obvious to do with its source — emotional eating is a common example.
What makes this work different is not just the framework — though Dynamic Trauma Integration goes further than most trauma approaches in both theory and practice. What makes it different is the quality of presence in the room. As you move through the unknown, my nervous system becomes an anchor for yours. You do not have to hold the vigilance alone. You do not have to watch for danger by yourself. For a time — as long as it takes — I watch. And in that holding, something begins to shift. The hypervigilance that kept you alive slowly softens. The unknown begins to feel less like a threat and more like a threshold.
This is coregulation. It is ancient. And it is the mechanism through which genuine healing — not just better functioning, but a fundamentally different relationship with yourself and with life — becomes possible.
This is a chance to work directly with me on Dynamic Trauma Integration and the Dynamic Processing Method. I work with people ages 5 and up. While I draw on traditional, evidence-based, therapy techniques, I also bring in tools modern life calls for - because this isn’t your typical therapy, and because you are not looking for a typical fix. You’re looking for change that is already calling you, even if you don’t know how to answer it.
FAQ
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If you have experienced trauma, or think that you might have, reach out for support. Most people who have experienced trauma do not believe their experience meets some threshold that would make it “bad enough”. Your experience is legitimate as it is. Also, I am not your average trauma therapist: I work with creative, sensitive seekers - people who ask the deeper questions about life and aren’t satisfied with the status quo.
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No. PTSD and complex trauma show up in wildly different ways - difficulty regulating emotions, disconnecting from your body, trouble learning or finishing tasks, not having a stable personality, even trouble having fun. The diagnosis is not the point.; understanding yourself well enough to live the life you actually want, instead of the one your past set up for you, is. And even without a formal trauma history, most people in modern life are carrying some version of toxic stress, loss of community, repeated exposure to violence, impossible tradeoffs (feed your kids or keep your health insurance), and systemic inequality. Trauma therapy here can help you meet all of that honestly.
Also, traumatology (the study of trauma) has come a long way in the last 70ish years. A lot of what professionals have learned about trauma can be applied to other issues now. Life is hard and in the modern age we are reckoning with stuff that we haven’t had to before. Even if you do not believe you have experienced trauma, you can likely benefit from being in trauma therapy here. Most people in modern life are experiencing toxic stress, loss of identity, loss of community, repeated exposure to violence (in real life or via media), complex moral and ethical dilemmas (e.g. feed your kids or have health insurance), pervasive power inequality (e.g. racism), and difficulty connecting with a deeper meaning of life. Trauma therapy here will help you deal with this in a holistic and honest way.
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5 years and up.
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I work with all sorts of relationships: romantic (throughout the spectrum of poly and mono), caregiver/child, siblings, friends, and even colleagues.
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Let’s do a consult. Often, working with multiple therapists at once is counterproductive and can interfere with treatment.
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Yes. I offer integration support and collaborate with other healers. I do not offer psychedelic-assisted therapy or guide plant medicine journeys myself. As someone in long-term recovery, working directly with substances isn’t my path, 25+ years of meditation and yoga have shown me that releasing what binds you doesn’t require them. That said, I fully support psychedelics-assisted therapy and plant medicine when it’s administered wisely, within a system that can hold the whole person through the process. I have worked alongside traditional and modern healers around the world who do this beautifully. Substances help people cope with real things, and like anything else, they have their limits worth respecting. I practice harm reduction and hold no judgment around substance use.
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No, I am fee-for-service. Payment is due at the end of each session, with a card is kept on file.
I provide superbills and use Mentaya to support reimbursement for clients using out-of-network benefits.
details
For both individual and relationship work.
Investment tiers
I offer three tiers of support because different seasons of healing call for different amounts of guidance, not because more is somehow better. All tiers require a minimum 3-month commitment. Meaningful change at this depth needs room to actually land. You know your situation the best and can decide which tier is appropriate for you. I do not require documentation.
Foundational - $200/session
Weekly 50-minute session with an expert
Basic email/text support between sessions
Individualized recommendations and resources to work with between sessions
Superbills provided and we can work with Mentaya to access your out-of-network insurance benefits.
Deepened- $250/session
For people who want more guidance between sessions, not just during them.
Everything in Foundational
More robust between session coaching support, for more responsive guidance as what we are working on starts to land
Expanded - $325/session
For people holding outsized responsibility for others: your leaders, especially.
Everything in Deepened
75-minute sessions instead of 50
More frequent sessions, as needed
Priority scheduling
Policies:
72-hour cancellation policy
No active need for psychiatric hospitalization given the nature of telehealth
Additional services:
$75 for each additional 30-minutes of session time
$120 consultation fee for sessions involving others in your care team - providers, friends, or family
$50 for more robust coaching between sessions
Known → Unknown → What Has Always Been Known deep down
As you move from dissociation toward more presence, your relationship to safety changes in ways that can feel disorienting before they feel liberating. What kept you safe before — the familiar, the controlled, the known — begins to reveal its limits. And the unknown, which your nervous system learned to treat as enemy, begins to reveal itself as something else entirely: the threshold to what you actually are.
This is not a comfortable passage. It was never meant to be. But it is a navigable one — and the skill at the center of navigating it is learning to distinguish between safety and comfort, between distress and actual danger. Not all discomfort means something is wrong. Not all unfamiliarity means threat. As that discernment grows, you'll find you can stay present even while uncomfortable — and still recognize real unsafety the moment it's actually there.
This requires leaving behind either/or thinking — safe or unsafe, fine or falling apart — and learning to live in the full spectrum of experience. Not the extremes. The middle. The shades of grey where real life actually happens.
Dynamic Trauma Integration therapy builds that capacity across 4 Layers of Presence simultaneously — not as stages to complete, but as dimensions of experience that are always available and always inseparable. I guide clients through these 4 Layers of Presence using a specific, repeatable sequence of noticing and playing - you can read more about exactly how on the Dynamic Processing Method page.
Develop presence of your inner world. Learn the language of your body, emotions, urges, and thoughts. Bring what’s been pushed into the shadow back into conscious awareness, and get clear on your own beliefs and values. A strong sense of self isn’t the end goal: it’s what lets you grow past yourself and live in genuine connection with the rest of life.
ME
Life is built from relationships - with other people, with plants, with time, with thought, with color, with everything around you and with different parts of yourself. You were never as separate as it felt. Individuality has its place, but so does relationality, and when you don’t know how to relate, life gets hard and stays hard. Culturally-attuned attachment principles help you build fluid, consistent connection with both people and the wider world.
WE
Every moment holds a moment between the moment. Every relationship holds space between two people, not just the two people themselves. In early healing, BETWEEN can feel unbearable — too open, too unstructured. But as the work deepens, something shifts. BETWEEN becomes possibility. Open time. The felt sense of capacity expanding. Learning to be at ease in the middle — to transition without rushing past it, to be calm even in limbo — is one of the most reliable signs that something real is changing.
BETWEEN
Life is bigger than the mind can hold. It is ineffable — words and concepts can never fully capture its extensiveness. What has always been known but not recognized lives here — the unconditioned, the inseparable, the only constant in a life where everything else has shifted.
How do you live with what cannot be understood by the ordinary mind? You stop trying to understand it and start learning to perceive it. Learning to live inside the questions rather than needing answers is the first step. Discovering that the ground of being was never touched by anything that happened to you is the arrival — not a fixed destination, but a new way of moving through everything.
BEYOND
The moment is now
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