EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Profile:
The Knowledge of Psychology with the Wisdom of Shamanism
Philosophy
As a therapist and healer I guide clients in uniting their souls with their bodies. My practice includes traditional mental health counseling, shamanic processing, creative expression, and movement healing. I believe that challenges, symptoms and problems themselves contain valuable insights. It is important to listen to the symptom and honor its purpose. The way past is the way through. One becomes richer for the journey.
Body, mind, and soul are deeply linked, and one of the most effective places to work is where Story affects that linkage in the subtle body, the vital essence of a person. Every human being possesses the wisdom needed for healing. My job is to provide tools, support, and a safe container for facing anything that may obstruct that wisdom.
Specializing in:
Healing trauma & abuse
Supporting transitions & significant life changes
Crises of illness, loss, or grief
Body issues
Stress transformation
Artist and performance issues
Spiritual growth
An international upbringing enables me to support people making cultural adjustments. I am fluent in Spanish.
Methods Include:
Jungian Depth Work & Active Imagination
Breath
Movement
Dreamwork
Creative Expression
Energy Healing
Subtle Energy Exploration
EMDR
Psycho Education
Education
M.A. Counseling with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology—Pacifica Graduate Institute
B.F.A. Dance —California Institute of the Arts
GROUPS:
Mental Health for Spiritual People™
If you’re too spiritual to fit into most therapy groups, but your spiritual group can’t seem to deal with much muck… bloom with us.
Ongoing. Thursdays 6-7:30 pm. Group begins November 8th. Two more spaces left! For information, call: 503-703-1262.
CLASSES:
Inner Dance: Moving from Chi
Deepen and broaden your movement skills, and enhance your joy in dance. Develop your Chi through Yogic Mudras, Butoh and Qigong. (This also restores and balances energy). Learn to direct your Chi though dance meditations. Listen to your body, and release your full expression through authentic movement and ecstatic dance. Come alive!
Tuesdays 6:45-8:30. Studio
WORKSHOPS:
Reclaim your Body, Reclaim your Life: Dance for Abuse survivors
In a safe, supported atmosphere, reclaim your body, your felt sense and your inner knowing. Become fully, even joyfully embodied. If you’ve done a lot of work, but still feel “stuck,” come unfreeze and discover your Self.
Next group beginning in late January 2008. Call 503-703-1262.
ONE-ON-ONE:
Wise Person Counseling™
Support for spiritual growth and right living
Classic Therapy: Counseling supplemented by other skills.
Mental health challenges (such as Anxiety, Panic, Depression, Self Esteem Issues, Sleep Disorders) especially those stemming from a history of trauma or abuse. Emphasing building on strengths, and on the wisdom hidden in the symptom.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
This tool is powerful for relieving trauma, especially PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). It moves reflexive response from unconscious motivations imbedded in the oldest part of the brain, to the parts of the brain capable of conscious choices. Integrates an experience previously frozen in the past with more mature, capable aspects of the present person. For some, it seems miraculous.
Embodiment Therapy™
Counseling, movement and subtle energy work to heal blockages to the integration and harmony of soul, mind, and body
GETTING HERE
407 NE 12TH @ Flanders. Room 201 Portland, OR 97232
