Emotions therapy and coaching.
Current offerings:
AEDP Therapy:
If you’re looking for learning how to slow down, pay attention to yourself, start orienting toward yourself, trusting yourself, and tolerating your emotions in a safe and intensive 1:1 setting, weekly therapy may be the best choice for you! I liken therapy to something like Crossfit, where it’s dense, it’s challenging, and the benefits can often be seen from the get-go. With safety, empathy, humor, and bravery, so much can change from the ground up. Fee: $225 per 45-minute session.
1:1 trauma-informed coaching:
This is offered as 45-minute concentrated biweekly sessions where we can see where you are, where you want to be, and start working toward goals. For big-brained people who want to change big time, we can target what is getting in your way. It’s going to be hard work, but it will also be cozy and warm along the way. When we slow down and track how you do things now, choice develops about how to interrupt and make new habits.
My education and experience as a licensed therapist poise me to bring those thousands of therapeutic hours to our time together, while also allowing me to extend it to coaching. We get to partner and keep our eyes on the prize. Fee: $225 per 45-minute session.
1:1 neurodivergence-informed coaching:
This is offered as 45-minute sessions with frequency determined after an initial consultation session and adjusted as needed. We will develop practical strategies, deeply appreciate your strengths, develop a nuanced and respectful understanding of your challenges, and develop a comprehensive map to work toward your goals. We develop skills, systems, and your appreciation for the unique way your brain functions. Skills-building can include time management, organization, planning, prioritization, and self-regulation. We get in the weeds about where you experience pain points, what you love and hate to do, and see how to work with yourself to shift what’s not working so well for you.
Whether you’re a student struggling with coursework, someone trying to balance career and family, or anyone who wants to improve their overall quality of life, coaching can help a person generate the foundation upon which they can cultivate a life that has meaning to them, on their own terms. Fee: $225 per 45-minute session.
Who benefits most from partnering with their emotions?
Short answer, everyone! And straight talk: Folks who are determined and ready to get to work!
Us humans have built all kinds of interesting, automatic, embedded tricks to contain and avoid emotions that we’ve coded as unsafe (hello sadness, fear, anger, disappointment, longing, frustration, grief). With that, it’s important to precisely track your unique feeling-then-pushing-down process AND which emotions are most reflexively avoided.
When the uncomfy emotions do pop up, you’ll want to do the usual pushing down. But! You can learn—through tracking, observing, tolerating and experiencing your emotions—that these natural physiological processes we call emotions always run their course and never, ever last forever…even though all of us human beings are initially scared they might.
The benefit of going through this process is that you can gradually stop being so freaked out by your emotions as they come up. Instead, they can pass on through, and your equilibrium is found more quickly. You can start to invite and comfort the emotions, rather than trying to lop them off somewhere far far away from awareness.
What is your method called?
I am a level III-trained AEDP therapist who brings 5 years of intensive, ongoing training in this model to both my therapy practice and to inform my coaching practice.
AEDP stands for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. The model has a some unique attributes:
It privileges the positive, recognizing and naming change as it’s happening, so that it can spur on more change. An upward spiral.
The provider’s stance is not distant and neutral. Rather, a client can expect an explicitly caring and engaged relationship. This is not accidental. The stance is based on current neurological understanding about attachment theory and optimal conditions for brain changes to occur; it should come as no surprise that a safe and caring relationship helps change accelerate.
AEDP is experiential at its base. This means we’re slowing down, to support you accessing and naming your experience. Whether you’re looking to understand why you are having a hard time starting new habits, or you’re a therapy client who gets seized by anxiety, paying attention to what is actually happening—in real time, in your body—is a key part of the change process.
We pay attention to parts of self. We grow and nurture inner trust in your capable, always-whole core authentic self. It’s from that here-and-now core self that we can start to tend to parts of your self and nervous system that have been overwhelming and separating it off from the rest of you. While separating off aspects of self and painful experiences served an important function—protecting you from big feelings and pain that you couldn’t bear alone—folks pay a heavy cost for containing these parts of self. We look to partner with all your parts of self, so that you can feel more strong and integrated as you approach life’s ups and downs.
Anxiety is seen as an internal signal system informing us that we are experiencing emotions coded as unsafe, cueing us to attempt to contain the threat (by intellectualizing, distracting, and all sorts of ways to keep emotions at bay). When containing the inner threat is not effective, we can maintain a heightened sense of threat with no relief.