Mindfulness helps with trauma by training the brain to stay in the present, promoting acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings, and regulated the stress response.
Getting into your body,
Regulates the nervous system: Trauma often triggers the fight-or-flight response, keeping the body in a state of high alert. This awareness allows you to recognize patterns of trauma reactions and regain a sense of control.
Increase self-awareness: Mindfulness helps you to observe your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without judgment. This awareness allows you to recognize patterns of trauma reactions and regain a sense of control.
Promotes non-judgmental acceptance: Trauma can lead to self-criticism and shame. Mindfulness fosters a compassionate and non-judgmental attitude towards your experiences, which is crucial for reducing the impact of trauma and promoting healing.
Changes brain structure: Research shows that mindfulness can lead to changes in brain regions associated with emotional regulation and memory. It can decrease the size of the amygdala (the brains’s fear center) and increase activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in executive functions and emotional control.
My method focuses on the balance between externalizing unhelpful old beliefs and internalizing Liberation.
Mind-Body-Connection
You may not be able to explain it, but the phrase “The Body Keeps the Score” resonates with you.
You’re curious about the ways that your brain, mind and body connect and how these three elements impact your day-to-day. You’re ready to treat your WHOLE self.
You want long-term support in addition to step-by-step, practical habits to practice between therapy sessions.
My method examines changes from a balance of both top-down and bottom up perspectives.
Online Therapy Sessions
Getting to an in-person session just might be the thing that means you can’t do therapy.
You want a quiet, private place to do this work and you’ve found there’s no place quite like your own home or office space.
My approach is integrative and relational. I add heaps of self-compassion skills. I’m guided by social justice and make use of third-wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) practices. I reference the concepts of power and privilege within my treatment plans.
All sessions are held virtually via HIPPA compliant online service.
PROFESSIONAL FEES: Individual psychotherapy sessions are $265-$300/week. I do periodically raise my fees. You will be notified well in advance of any changes.
FREQUENCY: If we are a fit, I require weekly sessions for the first 12 weeks. This is to ensure stabilization in the work.
INSURANCE: I am an out-of-network provider. I will provide an invoice for you to submit for reimbursement from your health care insurance company. Many clients have out-of-network benefits and receive significant reimbursement from their insurance provider. I recommend that you contact your insurance provider to determine what your benefits may be.
TELEHEALTH: Sessions will be held via phone or video. I currently provide sessions for California residents only.
FEES AND POLICIES
CANCELLATIONS AND MISSED APPOINTMENTS: Your designated session is your financial responsibility; therefore you agree to pay for your appointment, for the duration of our therapeutic arrangement, regardless of whether you choose to come. You are able to “make up” for cancelled appointments within the week before, during, or after the date of your absence, if our schedules align. I will make every effort to find a time for you. You are allotted one “free” cancellation per year for each time that you attend per week. (For example, if you attend therapy twice per week, you are given two “free” cancellations.) You are not required to pay for sessions that I cancel. I will make every effort to alert you of my planned vacation times in advance. In order to reschedule your session, you must give 24-hours notice, otherwise you are responsible for your fee and I cannot reschedule the cancelled appointment.
If you cancel your appointment, you will be charged by end of the day of the canceled appointment.
LENGTH OF TREATMENT: According to the American Psychology Association(APA), the length of treatment for psychological problems will necessarily vary from one individual to another. However, acute difficulties usually require fewer treatment sessions than do chronic conditions.
Length of Treatment Recent research indicates that on average 12 to 18 sessions are required for 50 percent of clients to recover as indicated by self-reported symptom measures. There are a growing number of specific treatment models of moderate duration (e.g., 12 to 16 weekly sessions) that have been scientifically shown to result in clinically significant improvements. In practice, clients and therapists sometimes prefer to continue treatment over longer periods (e.g., 20 to 30 sessions over six months), to achieve more complete symptom remission and to feel confident in the skills needed to maintain treatment progress.