“There is another world and it is in this one.” -Paul Éluard
Jungian Psychotherapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."
— Audre Lorde
My work is grounded in a collaborative and confidential therapeutic relationship shaped by acceptance, empathy, curiosity, respect, and mutual commitment. I approach psychotherapy as an opportunity for deep exploration, self-discovery, and the unfolding of possibilities that may not yet be fully known or realized.
My Jungian orientation is fundamentally non-pathologizing, and about becoming more fully ourselves. This means making room for aspects of ourselves that may have been disowned, silenced, or constrained by the need to belong. Together, we explore not only our personal histories and inner worlds, but also the cultural narratives and social expectations that have contextualized how we understand ourselves.
I am attentive to the ways gender, sexuality, identity, power, and systems of belonging and exclusion shape our experience. I hold therapy as a space to be curious about ways we have been shaped by dominant definitions of normality and health, and to discover ways of living that are more deeply authentic to ourselves.
The unconscious plays a profound role in shaping our lives, like the hidden root behind our feelings, relationships, choices, and behaviors in ways we don't fully recognize.
Dreams, images, symbols, and other expressions of the unconscious illuminate recurring patterns and unrecognized conflicts, while also pointing toward new possibilities, emerging aspects of the self, and directions our conscious minds have not yet imagined. Working with the unconscious allows us to engage more deeply with the forces shaping our lives and participate in the unfolding of who we are becoming.
Drawing on Jungian psychology, feminism, eco-therapy, transpersonal perspectives, mythology, and folklore, I bring particular attention to dreams, images, symbols, and embodied experience. These offer pathways into the unconscious and ways of engaging with what is emerging beyond our immediate awareness. Through this work, we can encounter dimensions of ourselves that have been overlooked or unknown, and open new possibilities for meaning, relationship, and transformation.
Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Much of our experience is not immediately accessible through words. Some feelings, memories, and ways of knowing are not offered to us through a straightforward narrative, as they continue to shape our emotional lives, relationships, and sense of self.
Expressive arts offers another way of engaging with experience. Through image-making, drawing, painting, writing, movement, play, and other creative processes, we give form to what has not yet found language. An image or gesture may bring an unfamiliar feeling into view; a story or symbol may reveal connections that conscious thought has not yet made. Creative work can do more than represent what we already know. It can surprise us, open unexpected pathways, and bring forward possibilities we could not have arrived at through thinking alone. It is a form of access to what we don't know that we know.
Contemporary trauma research has drawn increasing attention to the sensory, bodily, and imaginal dimensions of overwhelming experience, and to the importance of approaches that engage more than verbal recollection. Expressive arts integrates sensory, emotional, cognitive, and imaginative processes, approaching experience through image, movement, metaphor, and symbol, while allowing new associations and meanings to emerge.
Our imaginative lives, however conscious or unconscious, have a profound role in our lives. It is how we make symbolic meaning, recognize possibilities, and imagine a future that is in alignment with who we truly are and what we value and want. In the aftermath of trauma, that capacity can become constrained by fear, repetition, or a sense that things can never be otherwise. In working with the imagination, we can restore a sense of possibility, agency, curiosity, and even pleasure. It allows us to encounter our experience from new perspectives and to discover responses we may not have known were available to us.
And yet, something about the creative process exceeds what we can explain through psychology or neuroscience. In working with images, symbols, and imagination, we may encounter what Jung called the numinous: an experience of significance or presence that cannot be fully accounted for or controlled. There is room here for the great mystery, what is emerging in us, and perhaps through us, that we do not yet understand.
I integrate expressive arts into psychotherapy as a way of engaging the imagination and the unconscious, and of making room for discoveries that may not come through conversation alone. The work is not about artistic ability or producing a finished piece. It is about an encounter with all that lies beyond our cognitive reach— what opens for exploration, takes shape, surprises us, and becomes possible when we give experience a form.
Somatic Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Somatic Therapy
The body as an aspect of the psyche: a place where our emotional lives, histories, relationships, and unconscious processes take form. Much of what we experience is expressed through the body before we have words for it or without it ever becoming fully conscious. A tightening in the chest, a shift in posture, an impulse to turn away, a movement that wants to happen: these can carry meaning and emotional knowledge that we can learn an immense amount from and make sense of the struggles of our outer worlds when paid attention to.
In this sense, the body is not simply where we experience the effects of psychological distress. It is also a source of insight into our inner lives and a place of 'here and now' lived experience. Attending to bodily experience can help us recognize patterns, feelings, and responses that may be difficult to approach through thought or conversation alone. It can bring us into contact with aspects of ourselves that have been overlooked, inhibited, or not yet understood.
My somatic approach is relational and exploratory. I draw on three years of training in Generative Somatics, as well as study and experience in Authentic Movement, dance therapy, and Somatic Experiencing. These influences inform how I attend to sensation, movement, gesture, breath, and the subtle ways our bodies communicate. Together, we become curious about what the body may be expressing, what impulses or possibilities are asking for attention, and how new experiences of movement and response might emerge.
This work can be especially meaningful in the aftermath of trauma, when the body may continue to carry patterns of protection, tension, withdrawal, or vigilance long after the original circumstances have changed. Through respectful, curious, collaborative exploration, we can begin to develop a different relationship with these responses, allowing greater flexibility, presence, and choice.
For me, somatic work is a way of listening to the body as part of the larger life of the psyche, bringing a presently accessible, deeply knowing dimension to the therapeutic process, deepening our understanding of ourselves and our ways of being in relationship with the world.
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But… that is not what great ships are built for.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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