Play is exploration. Play means therapy doesn’t have to look one particular way. I bring a gentle, encouraging, and compassionate presence to the process. I invite you to bring every bit of yourself with you: anger, sadness, fear, joy, silliness, anxiety, disassociation—it’s all welcome.

A few ways we can play together. This is meant to stir creativity and inspiration, rather than limit how you engage with therapy.

The meditative approach:

In this style, we talk for a bit about an experience of yours that you are looking to explore. Maybe you experienced an emotional shut down recently. Maybe you felt an upsurge of anger that you don’t quite understand. Maybe you felt a deep sadness and want to know more about it. After we discuss your curiosity, I lead you into a meditative experience to connect with the parts involved in the process. This can feel like a guided meditation or a trance. It’s a particular way of connecting with feelings and parts of ourselves. We learn about the history of our feelings, the history of our hurts, the history of our protective strategies. We do this without shaming or blaming. The intention of this process is to understand and offer compassion to the parts of yourself that are hurting. Working with parts in this way allows for a unique kind of self-compassion. When we learn how to listen and care for our feelings, we begin to understand the innate wisdom of our system. Life will always be complicated, but when we meet it with grace and play, we live authentically.

Relational Approach:

For some, meditation doesn’t feel right and that’s okay. We can do the same work in a more conversational way, but bringing awareness to your feelings that arise during the conversation. Regardless of the approach, I encourage you to name whatever you’re feeling in the moment.

Dreamwork:

For those interested in their dreams, I really love providing a space for them to be explored. In this approach, I invite you to bring a dream or a dream image. We let the dream live and breathe, much like Jung’s active imagination. I guide you in interacting with the dream so that you can learn and experience the insights. I will never interpret your dream for you. I will help you connect with your dream and feel it deeply in your body. From the dream and your body, intuitive wisdom unfolds and you will have insights for how to move forward in your experience of life.

Mytho-poetic approach:

For those seeking a more experimental and creative approach, we combine all of the above, incorporating myth, soulwork, archetypes, dreams, somatic sensations, art, and on and on. This is not a quick approach, but a slow unfolding of your own personal myth and how it connects with the larger myth in which we all inhabit. This is a fun exploration of consciousness and the experience of being alive on this earth.