Whole Being Psychotherapy

About my practice

Welcome to my website -

It is my wish for you that therapy will bring you the profound gifts of healing and inner growth. We all need healing. Life is constant change, but the results we gain in therapy can become our solid and unshakeable ground. 

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Entering therapy should feel like you are walking into a place of great refuge and rest. I want to assure you that your true self, and the truth of your experience in general, are welcome here. The world makes great demands on us to be someone or something in particular, and we are rarely in an atmosphere that allows us the freedom to not have to perform, be, or look a certain way. 

As an integrative therapist, I am immersed in many psychological approaches, perspectives, modalities, and techniques, and you'll find a lot of information about these things on my website. I want to make sure that you have the option - now or at a later time - to feel more informed and empowered. Integrative psychology done well is invested in the total care of you. Read as much or as little as feels good for you in your current process.  

If we're going to engage ourselves in an activity of self-transformation, and one that truly impacts our brain, mind, and body, we have the right - and it's the therapist's obligation to be able to help us - to understand every aspect of the therapeutic process.

It is of vital importance to understand that not all therapies and modalities of healing achieve the same goals, and that some of them can, at best, be ineffective, while others can actually harm clients because their unique situation was not understood. You really want to find the therapies that are optimal for you.

In addition, my strong personal advice is that, regardless of the therapist and kind of therapy you choose, make sure that the therapist has a thorough understanding of trauma, the body, and the nervous system, in the context of doing therapy. Trauma is a powerful and often hidden thread that runs through many of the most common psychological issues, such as depression and anxiety, which is becoming more clear as the field of psychology develops its understanding of trauma and the brain.

Integrative psychology is the most complete psychological view because it is the view that is open and receptive to all valid and effective psychotherapeutic views and techinques. It doesn't favor one school of psychological thought or modality over another, or try to fit anybody - nor the whole of reality - into a single, narrow, predefined box. Integrative psychology values such principles as critical thinking, complexity, diversity, wholeness, autonomy, individuality, inclusion, and non-violence.

My Background

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I moved to the Boulder-Denver area from Philadelphia in 2009 in order to continue my formal psychological studies, and also to be centrally located in one of the most creative, advanced, and concentrated healing communities in the United States.

I finished my Bachelor’s Degree at Naropa University in “Contemplative Psychology”, with an emphasis in Somatic (body-centered) Psychology. Naropa University offers an integrative education that includes both traditional Western psychology, but also gives students the chance to study and explore their own psychological processes through various somatic, meditative, and interpersonal disciplines, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Moving to Boulder also gave me the chance to continue working with a school of “transpersonal” psychology that I first encountered in Philadelphia, in a more intensive and ongoing format. This school, which is known as the "Diamond Approach", is an organization dedicated to holistic personal growth. It utilizes Western psychology, somatic and meditative disciplines, as well as a method of Socratic inquiry. I have been involved in this school since 2007, and it has been one of my core influences as a psychotherapist.

A few years after graduating Naropa, I completed my Master’s Degree in Counseling at Regis University in Denver. I completed my practicum at the Eating Disorder Foundation, and my internship at People House, which is an affordable counseling program. Both are located in Denver.

For the last 15 years, I have been heavily immersed in personal and group psychotherapeutic work with various teachers, groups, healing communities, therapists, modalities, fellow colleagues, and peers. I have additional formal training in the modalities of Internal Family Systems Therapy and Somatic Experiencing, as well as in various forms of mindfulness meditation. I’m passionate about the field of psychology, healing, and the development of our full human potential.

My general orientation is always to understand the most effective therapeutic and healing modalities that can promote balanced and integrated development of the whole person. Our potential for healing and self-expansion as individuals is truly infinite and we are extremely fortunate to be living at a time where possibilities for an integrated, inclusive development have never been better.
 

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