Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
-Audre Lorde   

My approach is founded on a collaborative and confidential relationship based on acceptance, empathy, curiosity, respect, and mutual commitment. 

I meet my clients in a process of looking deeply into themselves with empathic understanding.  I draw from feminism, eco-therapy, the transpersonal, mythology and folklore.   

The unconscious shapes how we experience the world and ourselves.  I have advanced training and expertise in following and guiding the unconscious through dreams, imagery, symbols, and embodiment.  With compassion and attention, we will draw what lies at the fringes of awareness into an accepting and dynamic container of discovery and transformation.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

-Paul Klee

Expressive Arts Therapy is a cutting edge methodology being called upon by leading trauma experts, such as Bessel van der Kolk.  This approach is able to hold material we need to impart in a therapeutic process in a way that words alone can not.  Its foundation is in the naturally imagistic and symbolic realms of our psychic landscapes; where trauma, body language, and other unconsciously generated communication and behavior lies. 

Our social context instructs us to seek symptom relief.  However, as we are able to engage our creative inner-landscapes, no matter how troubled, with skillful companionship, we find not only greater resilience, but a greater sense of meaning, inner-riches, and senses of wonder, awe, and aliveness.