Practitioner Disclosure
This is to clarify the nature of my facilitation and educational aspect of sessions. My work with clients emerges from my training as a prenatal and perinatal somatics facilitator, Somatic Experiencing®, the Castellino Foundation training in prenatal and perinatal patterns and advanced family training, Anna Chitty’s Blueprint Resonance training, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and other bodywork training. My approach is body/mind centered, somatically oriented and sensitive to patterns that come from our genes, experience and our environment.
My education and bodywork support babies, children, pregnant couples, adults and families to explore and release early restrictive patterns arising from their prenatal and perinatal experiences. These early times extend from preconception through gestation, birth and the post birth attachment phase. Experiences during these early times can affect our development, long term health and well-being and can leave imprints that influence how we go forward into our lives, how we form relationships and our basic belief systems. My educational classes and sessions support the awareness and release of old patterns, the formation of new ones and the creation of new choices and possibilities.
For working with adults, I have developed a form of bodywork called Bodywork for Stability, Resilience and Transformation. We work with what you would like for yourself, and what brings you into session work. I use touchwork (my own development of a combination of Neuroaffective Touch, Polarity, and Biodynamic craniosacral therapy) and Anna Chitty’s Framework of inquiry and sensation to work with what needs to be integrated for someone to feel more whole and thrive in their lives. Table work helps adults by allowing easier access to early states. It is not indicated for every adult. I can do work seated as well, and many times, integration of early trauma or overwhelming events is done seated with table time as quiet integration.
I also offer womb surround birth process workshops for small groups of adults (maximum 4 people) to work with early trauma experiences to integrate them using movement and touch, what Ray Castellino called Facilitated Movement. The group work offers layers of support in mutual support and collaboration, what many people in our world don’t get. It can be profoundly re-orienting and create new neural pathways for life.
For family sessions, I also work closely with parents by teaching them skills and new ways of perceiving their children’s communication based on prenatal and perinatal somatics and coaching them towards better ways of meeting their children’s needs. My specialty is working with babies and the autonomic nervous system. I have a deep passion for and commitment to understanding the nervous system. The latest research supports the importance of the early development of our social engagement system through the cranial nerves, and how we develop in relationship (bonding/attachment). The sessions I offer for families seek to settle the nervous system and impart skills to families for optimal development. Sessions are often half play-oriented because that is the language of the child; I follow them in their play and notice patterns, especially patterns of speeding up and slowing down. Bodywork is a part of most sessions.
I am not a psychotherapist, nurse, or a certified mental health professional. I encourage clients to seek traditional therapy for support in their lives if needed and not to perceive this work as a replacement for traditional therapy; or to forego a therapeutic process that they are currently in. In the event that you are currently seeing a therapist, I would need you to first speak with your therapist about this process and get their approval to proceed.
For adults, this work can sometimes bring up emotions and sensations that may be uncomfortable and/or challenging to experience. This is because this work uncovers pre-existing patterns that have, for one reason or another, not been able to come to the surface and that are based in early challenging experiences. If this happens, it is important to remember that this process is voluntary and can be stopped at any time. You always have a choice with me.
My education and bodywork support babies, children, pregnant couples, adults and families to explore and release early restrictive patterns arising from their prenatal and perinatal experiences. These early times extend from preconception through gestation, birth and the post birth attachment phase. Experiences during these early times can affect our development, long term health and well-being and can leave imprints that influence how we go forward into our lives, how we form relationships and our basic belief systems. My educational classes and sessions support the awareness and release of old patterns, the formation of new ones and the creation of new choices and possibilities.
For working with adults, I have developed a form of bodywork called Bodywork for Stability, Resilience and Transformation. We work with what you would like for yourself, and what brings you into session work. I use touchwork (my own development of a combination of Neuroaffective Touch, Polarity, and Biodynamic craniosacral therapy) and Anna Chitty’s Framework of inquiry and sensation to work with what needs to be integrated for someone to feel more whole and thrive in their lives. Table work helps adults by allowing easier access to early states. It is not indicated for every adult. I can do work seated as well, and many times, integration of early trauma or overwhelming events is done seated with table time as quiet integration.
I also offer womb surround birth process workshops for small groups of adults (maximum 4 people) to work with early trauma experiences to integrate them using movement and touch, what Ray Castellino called Facilitated Movement. The group work offers layers of support in mutual support and collaboration, what many people in our world don’t get. It can be profoundly re-orienting and create new neural pathways for life.
For family sessions, I also work closely with parents by teaching them skills and new ways of perceiving their children’s communication based on prenatal and perinatal somatics and coaching them towards better ways of meeting their children’s needs. My specialty is working with babies and the autonomic nervous system. I have a deep passion for and commitment to understanding the nervous system. The latest research supports the importance of the early development of our social engagement system through the cranial nerves, and how we develop in relationship (bonding/attachment). The sessions I offer for families seek to settle the nervous system and impart skills to families for optimal development. Sessions are often half play-oriented because that is the language of the child; I follow them in their play and notice patterns, especially patterns of speeding up and slowing down. Bodywork is a part of most sessions.
I am not a psychotherapist, nurse, or a certified mental health professional. I encourage clients to seek traditional therapy for support in their lives if needed and not to perceive this work as a replacement for traditional therapy; or to forego a therapeutic process that they are currently in. In the event that you are currently seeing a therapist, I would need you to first speak with your therapist about this process and get their approval to proceed.
For adults, this work can sometimes bring up emotions and sensations that may be uncomfortable and/or challenging to experience. This is because this work uncovers pre-existing patterns that have, for one reason or another, not been able to come to the surface and that are based in early challenging experiences. If this happens, it is important to remember that this process is voluntary and can be stopped at any time. You always have a choice with me.
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