text: Info on Body Centered Nontouch Psychotherapy – Heart Centered Psychotherapy
  A Body Centered Psychotherapeutic approach to well-being focuses on the body and mind as one complex energetic unit, that is constantly communicating internally and with the world around us. Neuro-scientific research has enabled us to develop strategies used in the therapeutic process to achieve the highest level of health and wellness. I focus on increasing a person's sense of coherence (sense of overall balance and alert calm); self-regulation of stress states; increasing the capacity for resilience; and healing early attachment wounds that affect our current relationships. While talk therapy and psycho-education are part of the work, it is not enough to make long term shifts in stress management, depression, increasing resilience and relationship to self and others. Somatic Experiencing® is a gentle yet effective psychobiological approach to recovering from the debilitating emotional and physical effects of stress, overwhelm and trauma. It focuses not only on the memories and meaning held in our conscious brain, but especially addresses the stress patterns we have developed and hold in our nervous system and other subconscious parts of our brain and body.
  I also deal with attachment healing, which is developed at an early age and affects our relationship to ourselves and others, as well as our sense of safety. The client's needs help to determine where to begin and our areas of focus. Skills are drawn from the fields of clinical and educational psychology, Somatic Experiencing and Focusing.