Psychotherapy

Remember and become

Therapy is not simply about reducing symptoms. It is an opportunity to understand the patterns that have shaped you, tend the places that still hurt, and create new ways of being in relationship with yourself and others.

My approach is warm, relational, trauma-informed, and deeply respectful of the wisdom you already carry. Together, we may explore how past experiences continue to live in the present—in your relationships, nervous system, beliefs, boundaries, and sense of self.

I work especially well with people navigating trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, identity, life transitions, relationship patterns, and the feeling that something in their life is asking to change.

My Approach

There is no single way to heal.

I draw from trauma-informed and relational psychotherapy, EMDR, attachment work, nervous-system awareness, and depth-oriented exploration. Therapy may involve understanding the origins of a pattern, working directly with traumatic memories, noticing what is happening in the body, or learning to relate differently to the parts of yourself that developed in order to survive.

I don’t see therapy as a process of fixing what is wrong with you. I see it as a process of becoming more fully acquainted with yourself—what happened to you, what protected you, what you have outgrown, and what wants to emerge now.

Trauma & EMDR

Trauma can leave us responding to the present as though the past is still happening.

EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy that can help the brain process experiences that remain emotionally or physiologically unresolved. Rather than requiring you to repeatedly recount every detail of what happened, EMDR works with memory, emotion, beliefs, and the nervous system to help traumatic experiences become integrated into the past.

I am trained in EMDR and incorporate it when it is appropriate for the person and the work we are doing together.

Relationships & Attachment

Some of our deepest wounds—and some of our deepest healing—happen in relationship.

Therapy can help illuminate the patterns underneath whom we choose, what we tolerate, what we fear losing, and the ways we may abandon ourselves in order to remain connected to someone else.

Our work may explore attachment, boundaries, intimacy, abandonment, betrayal, grief, sexuality, self-worth, and the difference between relationships that feel intensely familiar and relationships that are actually nourishing.

LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

Part of my personal identity is Lesbian/Sapphic. My practice welcomes LGBTQ+ clients- and provides an affirming space to explore relationships, identity, sexuality, family, belonging, grief, trauma, spirituality, and the ordinary complexity of being human.

Psychotherapy & Shamanic Healing

Psychotherapy and shamanic healing are distinct practices at Ash & Elm. Although they braid beautifully they can be engaged separately.

Some clients come to me exclusively for psychotherapy. Others are interested in exploring spiritual or shamanic work as part of their broader healing journey.

You are never required to hold a particular spiritual belief or participate in shamanic practices in order to work with me as a psychotherapy client. When we are doing psychotherapy, our work remains grounded in the therapeutic relationship, your goals, informed consent, and the ethical standards of clinical practice.

There is still room for the mystery.

You don’t have to know exactly what you need.

Sometimes people begin therapy with a clear problem. Sometimes they simply know that the way they have been living no longer feels sustainable.

We can begin there.