HOW I CAN HELP
Life comes at us hard sometimes. And we do our best with what we have to work with. But there is more to you than just an expression of weary survival. And I am here to hold space for all the other parts of you as well. I see you as the whole person that you are (mind, soul + body).
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My therapeutic focus is supporting individuals experiencing chronic pain conditions, injury trauma, and complex grief disorders. The work that I do with clients is strongly informed by the neuroscience of pain psychology. And the interrelated connections between trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and the neuroplastic functions of the brain.
By incorporating elements of psycho-somatic (mind+body) and emotion-focused trauma narrative work, you can learn to regulate your nervous system and reestablish a sense of trust in your body.
(disclaimer/ no medical advice being provided)
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Explore The Therapy Approaches We’ll Use In Our Work Together.
Pain Brain Documentary
Produced + Directed: Mitch Dickman, Laurie Polisky, Tim Kaminski (2023)
“Endings and beginnings and the mystery of it all. Maybe the mountains hold space for the smallest piece of us. This soft wilderness. Like it still believes in us to rework our own parts that got broken along the way. That all we really needed was to have enough room to expand. Maybe that is the love poem that the ground writes for us.”
-O.S
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September 2021
“The Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) study found that psychological treatment centered on changing patients’ beliefs about the causes and threat value of pain, may provide substantial and durable pain relief for people with chronic back pain.” (Ashar, Gordon, Schubiner, et al., 2021)
Excerpt From The Boulder Back Pain Study / JAMA Psychiatry Journal / Read Full Article