The Inner Life
Onions, Garlic, and the Psyche
A playful look at two surprisingly useful metaphors for psychotherapy: the onion as a model of psychological depth, and the garlic bulb as a model of the psyche’s multiplicity.
Dream Work
An exploration of Jungian dream work and how dreams bring us into dialogue with the unconscious, complexes, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.
Active Imagination
Active imagination gives form to the inner world, creating a dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.
Memory Work
Memory work explores how the past continues to live in the present, and how old emotional learning can begin to change
Defense Work
Defenses protect us from experiences that once felt too threatening. Different therapies challenge, soften, support, or befriend them.
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
How mindfulness changes our relationship to inner experience, helping us disidentify from thoughts and emotions, move beyond conceptual understanding, and bring unconscious patterns into awareness.
Emotional Freedom Techniques: Tapping
EFT combines psychological processing with acupoint tapping, following emotions, memories, beliefs, and bodily responses as they emerge.
Predictive Processing
Predictive processing explores how the brain uses past experience to anticipate the present, offering striking parallels with transference, schemas, complexes, and other psychotherapeutic ideas.
Memory Reconsolidation
Memory reconsolidation explores how established emotional learning can become open to change when old expectations encounter something new.
Coherence Therapy
Coherence Therapy works with the emotional learning beneath symptoms, bringing old emotional realities into contact with experiences that contradict them.
Two Ways We Heal
An exploration of two paths of healing: transforming old emotional learning through experience, and changing our relationship to thoughts, feelings, and memories through awareness.
Beginning Therapy: What to Expect
A guide to what therapy looks like in my practice, from how we begin to how experiential therapy helps uncover and transform the emotional patterns beneath symptoms.