Trauma Therapy | Mental Health Counseling Chronic Illness Coaching

We will work one-on-one to support achieving your mental health goals facilitative of holistic wellness. Our time together starts with an intake session, where we will both have an opportunity to get to know each other and build your treatment plan to lay the foundation of our work together. We will explore various life arenas to set meaningful and targeted goals.

Telehealth available to Oregon adolescents and adults. We will use a secure platform to meet one-on-one to support you meeting your mental health goals. Virtual counseling can be particularly helpful for those located outside of the Eugene area, and hybrid-models are available—a good option for Junction City, Creswell, and Cottage Grove residents who may want to come into the office on occasion! Though there exists a distance in virtual counseling, we will follow the same intake process and building a healing space.

Personal and individualized support to reconnect with living a meaningful life. In-person at our Eugene office, or remote anywhere! Our work starts where your symptoms do. I’ll support you in becoming your own best medical advocate and building a better relationship with your symptoms. Our work differs from that of mental health counseling, but we will start our work with an intake and ‘getting to know you’ session, and then we’ll set meaningful and achievable goals to support your reconnection with living and loving life!

In our work together, we will honor and celebrate all the parts of you, including those best expressed through a creative means. Sometimes if a part of us was wounded in childhood, it’s easier to connect with that part of us through a nonverbal means. In session, I might pause and ask you “crayons, markers, or colored pencils?” and follow that up with an invitation to be creative. There are no hard-and-fast rules to creative expression and expressive arts invites participation from domains such as drama, music, and paint.

Our bodies hold stress, trauma, and memories differently than in our mind—I am currently a practitioner-in-training through Somatic Experiencing International’s three-year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner program. Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented approach to release built-up stress and trauma within our bodies, connect to our most authentic selves, and build emotional and nervous system regulation. SE aims to increase our capacity, our engagement with life, and connection to our selves. Contact me to ask more about SE!