“These pains you feel are messengers, listen to them.”
Trauma-Informed Coaching
Trauma not only changes our brain chemistry, rewiring our brain and nervous system, but it shapes the holding patterns in our bodies. It impacts our thoughts and feelings, our relationship with others, out physical experiences of ourselves as well as the the world around us. Ultimately we experience a mind-body-spirit resistance, a tightening of sorts, mind, body and spirit. Our bodies tighten, stiffen, we may begin to experinece a recurring chronic pain in a particular area. It also shrinks our perceived capabilites, our worthiness, and dims our motivation, manifesting as limiting beliefs, shame or perhaps guilt. Overtime these thought patterns shift our worldview towards a deficit-based mindset that is rooted in underlying feelings of mistrust; within ourselves, our body, and intuition.
Approach
With clinical expertise in the mind and human behavior and a personal experience accessing deeper healing through yoga, my approach has shape-shifted over the last few years, weaving elements of both sciences and body-based practices. I work with clients through a lens that's focused on the complex nuances of trauma, from the direct physical abuse to harmful sociocultural experiences of racial and intergenererational trauma. There is great value in a consistent, structured, and compassionate partnership that's centered around alchemizing what has been inflicted upon us and make room for wholehearted and embodied shifts that are rooted in agency, self-compassion and purpose.
“A blend of counseling and trauma-informed yoga. ”
“Healing is an evolutionary process that continually reveals itself through subtle yet profound shifts in self-awareness and agency.”
‘Top-down’ practices explore how the mind informs our actions and ‘bottom-up’ practices delve into how the body informs the mind. Embodiment is rooted in ‘bottom-up’ work, i.e. delving into the understanding that our bodily experiences inform and shape our emotional processing. Therefore, the body can be used as a tool to support us in understanding our emotional processes.
By weaving elements of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to healing, we create room for the integration of mind & body. Guided by the ancient healing practices and art form of yoga and informed by neuroscience, psychology and social justice we will redefine your body’s relationship with the stressors. Through critical self-inquiry, mindfulness, and yoga we create new avenues that cultivate safety in the body and motivation to move forward.
Areas of Specialty
Survivors
Survivors who are searching for change and growth. Folks who are amidst healing and experience resistance and uncertainty around the ‘how’.
Maybe it’s a subtle fear, or self-doubt. Maybe it’s uncertainty around what lies ahead. Trauma, in all its forms, from the micro to the macro, changes nervous systems response to stress and has the potential to create a lack of self-trust and safety within the body.
Through a collaborative process, we expand our capacity for growth and create a path that challenges you to push yourself while feeling safe, supported, and aligned with your goals.
Womxn Living With Vulvar Pain
Womxn who experience pain during sex due to vulvo-vaginal conditions such as: Lichen Sclerosus, Vaginismus, Vulvodynia …etc. Today, these conditions are categorized under the umbrella term Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder (GPPPD).
Living with GPP/PD causes women to navigate their sexual and intimate relationships through the neuro-physiological lens of trauma. Womxn may may experience body shaming, feelings of inadequacy, fear of intimacy, fear of rejection, anxiety, depression… and much more.
Caregivers
Those caring for others, as a career or those caring for loved ones; health care providers, therapists, family caregivers, crisis response, humanitarian aid workers, nurses…etc.
Caregivers are often exposed to secondary trauma and compassion fatigue seeking which can lead to overwhelming and possibly debilitating emotional states.
Together we addresses the inevitable emotional challenges around the ‘occupational hazards’ and work to transition from a state of surviving to thriving.
“Through a delicate exploration of mind, body & spirit we co-create a more resilient you.”
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