Mind-Body Psychotherapy: My Approach

Therapy that embraces the whole person

I don’t believe we experience our lives only through our thoughts. Our relationships, histories, emotions, bodies, beliefs, and the ways we’ve learned to cope all shape how we move through the world.

My foundation is integrative psychotherapy. My approach is warm, relational, and draws on various holistic healing techniques. Depending on what feels useful and appropriate for you, our work may integrate traditional psychological approaches along with mindfulness, nervous-system awareness, breath, body-based practices, and principles I’ve learned through years of studying and practicing yoga.

Sometimes talking is exactly what is needed. Other times, slowing down enough to notice what is happening in your body, breath, or nervous system can help us understand aspects that words alone haven’t reached.

Mindfulness in therapy, for me, is not about emptying your mind or trying to feel calm. It is about noticing what is present with a little more space and less judgment. In therapy, that may mean slowing down to notice a pattern, a reaction, a feeling, or the moment something shifts within you. That kind of mindfulness can help create greater choice in how you respond.

How yoga informs my work

My years of studying and practicing yoga have profoundly influenced my understanding of healing. However, therapy with me is not a yoga class. The principles of yoga philosophy have shaped the way I think about presence, acceptance, self-study, compassion, change, and the relationship between mind and body.

When it feels beneficial, I may incorporate breath, gentle movement, body awareness, or stillness into our work. There is no required practice, and nothing you need to know how to do. Sometimes we may use those tools, and other times we may simply talk.

The tools serve the therapy, not the other way around. 

Healing is not about doing more

I don’t view therapy as just another self-improvement project. Instead, it can be a space to understand yourself more honestly, notice what you’ve been carrying, make room for what you feel, and begin to respond to yourself with greater clarity and care.

The goal isn’t to become someone else. It’s to become more connected to yourself.