How We Learn to Leave Our Bodies

Some of us come into the world already wired more sensitively, more attuned, more affected, more aware of things others seem to brush off. That sensitivity is a gift. But when it isn’t met with understanding early on, we learn to cope the only way we can.

For some we move into our heads. We get very good at thinking, analyzing, functioning. Or as Brene Brown would say, “over-functioning.”  We learn to override the signals. And for a long time, it works.

Until it doesn’t.

The body keeps a different kind of record. It stores what the mind couldn’t process, and it will eventually find a way to make itself heard.  That might be through fatigue, pain, the 3am wake-up that comes like clockwork, or the crash that arrives every weekend without fail.

This isn’t weakness. It’s what intelligent, capable people do when they’ve had to manage too much, for too long, without enough support.

I know this pattern from the inside. It’s also why I can recognize it in you.

How I Work

I am a Jungian analyst in training and a board-certified art therapist. I work with the unconscious through dreams, imagery, active imagination, and the symbolic language of the body, because I’ve found it to be where the most durable change actually happens.

This is not manualized, protocol-driven therapy. There is no standardized six-week plan. We work with your specific patterns, your dreams, your images, your history, and we take seriously the intelligence of everything that’s trying to surface.

I’ve been drawn to dream work since childhood. Dreams have been a conversation with my own soul for as long as I can remember, a source of warning, insight, and sometimes unexpected grace. I bring that depth of relationship with the imaginal into the work we do together.

My training has also given me a particular attunement to the full complexity of who walks through the door. I understand diverse relationships, identities, and spiritual frameworks, not as an ally learning from the outside, but as someone who has inhabited those communities directly. If that matters to you, you don’t have to explain yourself here.

I also work comfortably and respectfully with clients across a wide range of spiritual and religious backgrounds, including those with traditional faith practices and those with none.

What You Can Expect

I will get to know you and your individual story. I will hold you accountable, gently point out blind spots, and stay with you through the parts that are uncomfortable and disorienting, because that’s often where the most important work lives.

I’m not afraid of the content of intrusive thoughts, dark dreams, or the material that feels too strange or too shameful to say out loud. All of it provides information. If we can’t talk about it, we can’t work on it.  All of it is welcome.

What I’m working toward with you is not symptom management. It’s the kind of deep realignment where the body no longer has to carry everything alone, because the inner life has finally been heard.  We’re not working on dissecting parts.  We’re working toward synthesizing wholeness.

Jung wrote: “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.”

That is the spirit in which I strive to work.