Experiential Counseling

My approach includes experiential therapy for stress and anxiety, relationship issues, depression, and trauma resolution, to name a few issues I work with from my office in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.

Experiential therapy has been found to help bring resolution to trauma. Feelings, emotions and inhibited responses (such as fighting or fleeing) can be stored in the body. We might feel spacey, frozen, anxious or alert when we want to be more engaged and present. Or we have patterns of distrust in relationships that get in the way of another part of us that wants to connect and be loved. The stored emotions can seem like a wall – protective and isolating. Experiential therapy will allow the wall to soften.

Going beyond traditional talk-therapy, I practice a somatic, attachment-theory-based approach where greater awareness and change is facilitated through experiencing the mind-body connection and examining relationship patterns.

While I support you to follow emotions through to their completion, your deep sense of what is important will direct the work further. As a warm, emotionally-engaged therapist, I offer you the chance to be seen and understood in a deeply transformative way. Experiential therapy helps you regulate your emotions by allowing feelings that were unprocessed or invalidated to have a “voice” and be integrated into your personality.