Brain- Based Therapy

Experiential therapy is a therapeutic approach that helps clients access insight, healing, and change through direct experience rather than conversation alone. Instead of only talking about problems, clients engage in activities, practices, or interactions that bring emotions, sensations, beliefs, and relational patterns into the present moment so they can be explored and transformed.

It often includes somatic work, expressive arts, role-play, movement, imagery, or structured exercises that make the inner experience more vivid and accessible. The therapist helps the client notice what arises and supports them in processing and integrating those experiences.

At its core, experiential therapy works from the idea that people heal by experiencing new ways of being, not just intellectually understanding them.

How I can help

Therapy is not just about insight or symptom reduction—it’s about changing how you experience yourself and your life from the inside out. My aim is to help you slow down, listen inward, and develop a more compassionate and trusting relationship with yourself. Rather than ‘fixing’ or analyzing, we work with what is present: sensations, emotions, images, thoughts, and patterns, so that new meaning and healing can emerge organically.

Issues + Life Experiences I Support:

Emotional + Inner Life

  • Anxiety, stress, or overwhelm

  • Self-criticism, shame, or difficulty with self-worth

  • Feeling stuck or disconnected

  • Burnout, depletion, and perfectionism

  • Difficulty slowing down, resting, or feeling safe in your body

  • Depression or emotional numbness

  • Difficulty identifying emotions or needs

Relationships + Attachment

  • Relationship dissatisfaction or repetitive patterns

  • Communication challenges and conflict

  • People-pleasing and boundary issues

  • Difficulty trusting others or feeling secure

  • Couples navigating life transitions, loss, and stress

Parenthood + Family Life

  • Fertility journeys, loss, or birth trauma

  • Pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and identity changes

  • Attachment and trauma-informed parenting support

  • Guilt, depletion, resentment, and invisible labor

  • Conflicting parenting values, cultural dynamics, or role changes

Body + Nervous System

  • Trauma, complex trauma, or history of emotional neglect

  • Anxiety stored in the body and physical symptoms

  • Overwhelm, emotional shutdown, or dissociation

  • Chronic patterns of survival energy (fight/flight/freeze/fawn)

  • Difficulty feeling or trusting sensations, needs, or intuition

Ways I help:

  • Co-create the therapy treatment plan with you, based upon your goals for the work and your life

  • Help you connect with your witnessing mind— the ability to notice inner experience with curiosity and compassion

  • Develop nervous system regulation tools

  • Explore patterns rooted in early relationships and lived experience

  • Strengthen self-trust, emotional resilience, and inner stability

  • Facilitate deeper connection, honesty, and repair in intimate relationships

  • Help you access your own inner resources rather than relying on external answers

Therapy is a collaborative process. I bring training, presence, and framework; you bring your lived experience, showing up just as you are. You don’t have to be in crisis to seek support. Many people come to therapy in order to have a space and time where they are not responsible for anyone else, where their feelings matter, and they are not “too much”. Together, we’ll make sense of what’s going, and create a path forward that feels right for you.

If you’re curious what this kind of therapy might be like for you, I’d love to talk with you.

I offer a complimentary 20-minute consultation to help you decide if working together feels like a good fit. Click here to schedule.

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