My work is for people who have already tried conventional talk therapy, but still feel that something deeper has not changed. I offer a different doorway: slow, mindful attention to present-moment experience, especially the body, so that unconscious patterns can become visible without force or judgment.

The word Hakomi is translated as, “How do you stand in relation to these many realms?” I understand those realms as the many contexts that shape a life: the roles we have had to play, the relationships that formed us, the moments when we learned what the world is, what people are, who we are, and what “we” means. Some of these lessons were learned early. Some were learned through rupture, adaptation, longing, or survival. Many still live in the body before they become language.

These contradictions are not treated as problems to solve too quickly. They are approached as meaningful parts of your organization: ways you learned to stand in relation to experience. A person can know something intellectually and still feel something else in the body. A person can want intimacy and fear it. A person can carry grief, anger, tenderness, shame, loyalty, and protection inside the same story.

Before becoming a therapist, I was an art teacher. That background still shapes how I show up as a therapist. The practice of visual art taught me that discovery often happens through experimentation, careful attention, and the freedom not to know too quickly. In therapy, I bring that same sensibility: we slow down, look from multiple angles, and allow new meaning to emerge from direct experience.