Our Embodied Approach

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people heal by accessing and loving their protective and wounded inner parts. The mind naturally has many parts, and that’s a good thing. But just like members of a family, those inner parts can be forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. When a person has been hurt, humiliated, frightened, or shamed in the past, they will have parts that carry the emotions, memories, and sensations from those experiences— the inner critic, wounded child, rebellious teenager are some examples. We also all have a core Self. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. And it knows how to heal. By helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts, IFS creates inner and outer connectedness through experiential therapy work. Click here to learn more.

Clinical hypnosis is a safe, natural state of focused attention, inner absorption, and deep concentration. It’s similar to the feeling you might experience when you're completely immersed in a book, a movie, or your own thoughts. In this state, your mind is more open to positive suggestions, insights, and change.When guided by a trained hypnotherapist, clinical hypnosis can be a powerful therapeutic tool to support healing and personal growth. It can help shift patterns in thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and even physical experiences. Hypnosis can help reduce anxiety and stress, manage chronic pain, address trauma responses, support habit change. improve sleep, and navigate psychosomatic or mind-body symptoms. Clinical hypnosis is not about being controlled or "zoned out"—you remain in control the entire time. It’s simply a way to access the mind’s natural ability to heal and transform from within.

Attachment theory is based in the neuroscience that human beings are innately relational, social, and wired for intimacy. An attachment-based approach to therapy explores the influences of early attachment experiences and looks at their connections to present-day relationship patterns and coping strategies. These early attachment experiences include those with parents and caregivers, the dynamics of the home while growing up, and other significant childhood experiences. Understanding what your underlying unmet attachment needs were and are can help you learn alternative ways to better meet your core needs and find greater fulfillment in your relationships.

As a liberation-oriented practice, we strive to be anti-oppressive and work to decolonize therapy. We commit to confronting and disrupting oppressive systems in ourselves and in our profession. This looks like unlearning our own internalized -isms and phobias; examining our privileges; minimizing power dynamics between therapist and client; practicing transparency; inviting ongoing feedback; being accountable for our mistakes; and investing in communities and movements that are making systemic change. We invite you to consider how historical, intergenerational, societal, and institutionalized systems of oppression are directly connected to your wellbeing in your body, mind, and spirit. We strive to hold a safe and affirming space to explore this path to collective liberation together.

Body Trust is a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach that focuses on rebuilding a trusting, intuitive relationship with your body. It emphasizes the importance of listening to your body’s signals, honoring its wisdom, and cultivating a sense of safety and autonomy within your own skin. Body Trust is a radically different way to occupy and care for your body that runs completely counter to conventional “wisdom” about food, body image, weight and health in our culture. Body Trust is a scientifically grounded healing modality—a way out of the predictable, repetitive pattern of dieting, disordered eating and weight cycling fueled by shame, trauma, and body-based oppression. Body Trust is informed by liberatory frameworks and methodologies, as well as Health at Every Size®, intuitive eating, shame resilience theory, self-compassion theory, Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment, and post-modern therapeutic thought.  Click here to learn more.