Insights & Tools for Healing

Trauma isn’t just something that happened. It’s what happened inside you as a result. And often, it’s what keeps happening when your body and nervous system don’t feel safe — even long after the event is over.

Your nervous system is designed to move through waves — activation and deactivation, expansion and contraction. But when stress builds up, or when we’ve been taught to ignore what we feel, we can lose our rhythm.

Nervous System 101 is a guide to getting to know the incredible inner system that helps you stay safe, connect with others, and navigate life’s stressors. It’s a science that helps us better understand how we are wired so that we can better serve ourselves and help us heal.

Experiential therapy is a powerful approach that goes beyond talking about problems and instead helps you experience what’s happening inside — in your thoughts, emotions, sensations, and beliefs — in real time.

“What was learned in the past can be unlearned — not forgotten, but rewritten.” — Bruce Ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain At the heart of meaningful change is a quiet and remarkable process called memory reconsolidation, the brain’s natural capacity to revise old emotional learnings in light of new experience. It is how the body and mind make peace with the past, not by erasing it but by allowing a new truth to take root. If you would like to see this process come to life,

Chronic pain is a topic near and dear to my heart. Having grown up in a household where chronic pain was present within my own family and...

It’s easy to feel like the mind and body are working against each other. That restless feeling when thoughts are swirling

Dissociation can feel like slipping away from yourself — losing track of time, feeling disconnected from your body, or watching life happen

Dissociation can feel like slipping away from the world — like you’re in the room without really being there. It’s disorienting and lonely,