Services & Fees
Be advised Axis Mundi has a 24 hour cancellation policy. Any session cancelled within the 24 hour window and the client will be charged for the full session.
Therapist may offer a rescheduled time but it is not guaranteed.
“Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that an unexamined life is not worth living.” - Irvin Yalom
Individual Counseling
(Ages 13+)
Most of us consider ourselves lucky to have one or two people in our lives that we can truly open up to without fearing they will abandon or judge us. Therapy can be a space that allows you to explore the shadow and light of your personality and psyche and process trauma with someone whose only motivation is to support and guide with acceptance and care. The need to feel seen and acknowledged as the complex people we are transcends age, culture, race, or gender and is an incredible gratifying and healing experience.
Couples & Family Counseling
The relationships we hold with our partners and families are the ones that shape us the most. When they are going well we feel safe to take on the challenges of our lives, knowing they are there to support and love us through it. But when there is conflict and a lack of trust, our confidence wavers and we are often left with disillusionment, anger, and a sense of loss. Therapy could help couples and families bring clarity and insight into the negative dynamics effecting the relationships and from there they can develop a sense of how to grow and improve. A mix of patience and personal responsibility will be required to create lasting change but having the unconditional love and support of your loved ones is worth the effort.
My Approach
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Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic psychology is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on somatic experience, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body. Specially your nervous system’s response to stress and trauma and how that relates to your mental and emotional health.
Trauma, stress, illness, and everyday life are all felt and processed by our nervous system first. By understanding how your unique stress response (Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn) is effecting your emotional and mental health, you can begin to develop the ability to regulate and retrain your nervous system’s response to stress and trauma.
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Here and Now Orientation Towards Healing
Mindfulness and present moment awareness is a major tenant to my therapy style. It is from the present moment that we are able to regulate and create lasting shifts in our thinking and behaviors. Developing the habit of presence is an essential tool to healing, and by attuning to and taking responsibility for your experience in the here and now, you will develop resilience and confidence in your ability to handle life’s stresses, both big and small.
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Parts Work (IFS)
The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of subpersonalities, or parts, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities. And often those different parts have different motivates and goals for us that can cause internal conflict and despair. Assessing and reconciling conflict within our parts is an essential step towards integration and Self empowerment.
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Existential Exploration
Existential therapy focuses on the anxiety that occurs when a client confronts the conflict inherent in life. The role of the therapist is to help the client focus on personal responsibility for making decisions and creating meaning of their life and experiences. By examining life’s big questions, and facing the reality of life and death, we are able to create a life that feels purposeful and fulfilling on our own terms.
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Attachment Focused
Attachment-based therapy is an approach to therapy that specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges that clients enact because of early attachment experiences with their primary care givers. Developing insight into why we react and respond the way we do within close relationships is essential work for those ready to make changes.