About Professional Consultation with Me
If you're a therapist or helping professional who wants to bring more embodied, somatic awareness into your clinical work—or into your own professional wellbeing—I offer consultation designed specifically for you.
What We'll Explore
I work with practitioners who want to:
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Integrate body-based practices into their work with clients
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Develop their own somatic skills and embodied presence
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Address burnout, compassion fatigue, or work-life balance
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Navigate professional challenges with greater ease and clarity
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Deepen their understanding of nervous system regulation and polyvagal approaches
How We Work Together
Our consultation sessions are experiential and embodied. We'll talk, yes—but we'll also work somatically, using movement, breath, nervous system awareness, and body-based practices to explore what you need. I draw from UZAZU Embodied Intelligence, Body-Mind Centering®, polyvagal theory, and decades of clinical experience to offer tailored insights and practical strategies.
You'll leave each session with something concrete you can apply—whether that's a new way of working with a stuck client pattern, a practice for your own regulation, or a fresh perspective on a professional challenge.
Getting Started
In our first session, we'll use two self-assessment tools to understand your current experience and identify what you'd like to shift or develop. From there, we'll design a consultation plan that fits your needs—whether that's monthly check-ins, a short intensive series, or weekly sessions during a particularly challenging time.
Consultation is available in person in Portland or via Zoom.
Fees
$175 for 55-minute session; $250 for two clinicians sharing a session. Please be in touch for rates for small group consultation.
A Note About Consultation versus Therapy
While consultation isn't therapy, the work can have a powerful therapeutic impact. If deeper personal work emerges that would be better addressed in your own therapy, I'll let you know and can help you find appropriate support.
Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
Monthly Study Group
Date TBD. Please scroll below to sign up for announcements from me if you'd like to receive emails about this as well as other professional development opportunities.
This group of up to sixteen participants will study somatic principles of embodiment and movement as they relate to helping our clients in a psychotherapeutic context. Rather than to the couch, we will bring our studies “to the floor” (and to the body), to explore ways of bringing somatic and body-oriented approaches to our work as therapists.
Topics will include:
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Establishing comfort and safety through our primary relationship to the ground and gravity
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The establishment of midline, the front body, back body, and middle body and other natural divisions of the body that impact psychophysical experience
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Embodiment of the organs and how this affects our experience of self
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Hands-Feet-Mouth-Tail and the navel center and its relevance to somatic processing of emotions and physical pain
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Embodiment of the skeletal system for support and grounding through the body
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Proprioception/interoception/vestibular systems as part of our kinesthetic sensory system, and how these systems impact our sense of safety and orientation
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Concepts such as mobile stability and stable mobility; high/low tone; the relationships between support and movement; the impact of developmental movement patterns on psychological development.