I truly enjoy supporting therapists in their work. Consultation has been a source of creativity, integration, connection and fun for me. My work with therapists is shaped by more than 20 years of clinical work with individuals, couples, supervision and training. For many years I worked exclusively within the EFT model, but now I see it as one potential starting point for exploration. I also integrate power analysis, somatic perspectives and depth psychology, among many other approaches. I believe that I cannot do competent work without including an analysis of power, race, gender and other social factors, and that work must begin with me.

I particularly enjoy working at the intersection of our clinical work and our personal work. After many years of training and supervision, I know therapists. I know the gifts and struggles of being a therapist. There is often an important intersection between the personal and professional lives of therapists where much growth and change is possible. But if you just want help navigating a tough case or a couple, I love that too. I have worked largely in contexts where therapists bring recordings of their work to consultation and I believe that is the way to get the most out of it.

My work is grounded an anti-racist, anti-imperial mindset, where none of us are free until we all are. I don’t believe in trying to get clients to be more productive or fit better into our broken systems. I believe therapy work should be disruptive to the systems of oppression that we are all living in. I particularly enjoy working with women who are breaking out of old patterns and structures and white folks who want to heal internalized white supremacy.

After more than twenty years of practicing psychotherapy, I am looking for new ways to talk about what I do. Why these words–Emergence Doula? Emergence describes a process of something unfolding, being born. Birth, where we all begin, isn’t easy or comfortable. A doula knows how to witness, support, step in or sit back depending on the needs of a naturally unfolding process. I don’t believe that one of us is broken and the other to knows how to fix. I want to witness and support people moving towards a truer, fuller, deeper life.

We are living in a time of collapse of our systems and culture. Transition and turmoil are everywhere. What does it mean to heal in the midst of it all? Over the years I have seen how turmoil offers us moments where we are motivated and open to deeper levels of healing. I walk with people through whatever they are facing and help them cultivate a deeper relationship with themselves and the world around them. I have a lot of experience working with trauma, relationships and integrating psychedelic experiences. I believe the importance of having a creative practice.

I have been a seeker all my life. In my own healing I have explored many modalities outside of traditional mental health in order to find deep transformation. I have studied Jungian psychotherapy, dream work, yoga therapy, meditation, EFT, AEDP, somatic work, psychedelics, and much more. I work the nervous system, the body and the soul. With personal and professional experience and training in psychedelics, I enjoy facilitating integration of psychedelics. I draw on creativity, nature and spirituality in my work. I help people find what is true for them and weave that into their lives. I believe that creative life is integral to healing. If you are a writer or artist, or if you just want a deeper relationship with creativity, I would love to support you in that desire.