Therapy + Retreats
Retreats
Cultivating spaces to slow down, rest, and play are the heartbeat of my work. In our fast-paced and overbusied lives, finding time to enjoy these rhythms can feel near impossible. I love crafting restorative spaces where we can move into a new rhythm, experiencing a new kind of muscle memory to help us fully exhale, rest, and take this with us on the other side of a retreat. In these spaces I integrate therapeutic approaches like polyvagal theory, parts-work, mindfulness, and interpersonal neurobiology with movement, contemplative practices, and play.
2025 Retreat:
I am thrilled to announce that I am joining with Ann-Marie Bowen to host a retreat in Scotland in June 2025. Please contact scotlandifsretreat@gmail.com for more information.
Intensives & Outdoor Therapy
Please note, I am currently unable to take any new clients for clinical work. When this changes, this message will be updated and contact information for clinical services will be made available.
Years ago after I started going to therapy, I couldn’t get over how transformational it was in my life. Instead of feeling stuck, I felt like I was coming alive. I wanted to create similar spaces for other people, but it didn’t really fit into my life to go back to school and start a whole new career. Then, core pieces of my life shattered, and in many ways, this gave me the best training I could have ever received to walk alongside other people wanting to process pain, trauma, and grief. That started a years long journey of going back to school and starting work as a counselor, which included countless more unexpected experiences that continued to teach me that life rarely goes how we think it will.
These are the spaces I’m most passionate about entering into in therapeutic work — the places we find ourselves, wondering,
How did I get here?
This isn’t what I signed up for.
I feel stuck.
The research that informs my work emphasizes how important it is to be connected to what goes on inside of us (connection to our bodies, thoughts, and emotions) as well as utilizing therapeutic spaces to start to experience things differently from how we’ve experienced and moved through life outside of therapy. One of the most powerful ways we can do this is by increasing our ability to be present and grounded. I have received training in outdoor therapy and find this to be one of the most natural and refreshing ways for people to ground and move forward, rather than feeling stuck in a chair, which can frustratingly mirror how we feel stuck in life.
My therapeutic work focuses on connecting with and learning the rhythms of our autonomic nervous systems, along with the ways that different “parts” of us intersect with autonomic nervous system states. I offer brief intensive counseling sessions to dive into this work with intentionality, setting aside time in a season to tend to what’s happening inside. Intensive sessions last a minimum of 100-minutes up to a maximum of 200-minutes, with 1-3 sessions scheduled in a day or week. Brief intensive work is designed to span across a minimum of 1-week, up to a maximum of 6-weeks. I love answering questions people have about the approaches I use and the research behind them so that you can feel informed about the work we are doing, genuinely getting to be part of a collaborative process in your healing journey.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider in the state of Tennessee, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in the state of North Carolina, and a National Certified Counselor with the National Board for Certified Counselors. I have completed EMDRIA approved training in EMDR levels I & II, I am a certified Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) provider, and have completed training in outdoor and ecotherapy approaches. I also hold a second master’s degree in ancient languages, which focused on interpretation and hermeneutics of religious texts, which I love to integrate (when requested) as we seek to make sense of how spiritual practices might intersect with therapeutic work.