Interpersonal neurobiology provides the foundation for how I understand healing and change. Our brains are shaped by relationships and therapy is not simply about insight or strategies, but about the lived experience of being deeply understood and attuned to. It is this relational experience that supports meaningful and lasting change at a neurobiological level.
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As your therapist, I believe you are already whole, resourceful, and capable of healing. This belief is central to my practice and is why I primarily use Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. IFS is a non-pathologizing, person-centered approach that understands the psyche as an internal “family” of parts. Rather than trying to eliminate or fix these parts, we work to understand them with curiosity and compassion, allowing for greater integration, self-leadership, and healing.
Through IFS, we access your Self: your core of innate wisdom, calm, curiosity, and compassion. From Self-leadership, you can build trusting relationships with your internal parts, helping them release burdens and take on new, healthier roles. For me, Internal Family Systems is not simply a therapy I practice, but a way of being that informs how I listen, relate and support healing, both within the therapeutic relationship and beyond it.
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I blend IFS with the following integrative techniques to help you move beyond cognitive coping and achieve internal harmony and lasting transformation:
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Brainspotting
Brainspotting (BSP) is a neurobiological technique that helps process and release trauma and emotional pain. By focusing on a specific eye position—the "brainspot"—it accesses non-verbal parts of the brain where distress is stored, promoting deep, lasting shifts beyond cognitive understanding.
Equine Therapy
Equine-Assisted Therapy integrates horses into the therapeutic process, offering powerful, experiential healing beyond the traditional office setting. Working with horses supports self-confidence, clear boundaries, and present-moment awareness, often deepening and accelerating work with trauma, anxiety, and relational challenges. I partner with Rhythm Hollow Stables in North Bennington to offer on-site sessions; an additional fee is paid directly to the farm.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps your brain process and resolve traumatic memories. Using guided bilateral stimulation, it reduces the emotional intensity of distressing events, relieving symptoms like flashbacks and anxiety and transforming painful memories into neutral ones.
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once,
with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in it's deepest essence,
something helpless that wants our love."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke