Individual Work
Sometimes we reach a place where the strategies that once helped us survive no longer help us live. Maybe you feel stuck in patterns you can name but can't seem to change. Maybe you've spent years understanding yourself intellectually while still feeling disconnected from your body, your relationships, or your sense of purpose. Maybe you've tried therapy before and found yourself circling the same territory without anything actually shifting. This work is for people who aren't just looking for answers. They're looking for a different relationship with themselves.
My Approach
I don't believe healing comes from fixing what's broken. I believe it emerges through relationship: relationship with yourself, with your body, with difficult emotions, with the people you love, and with the parts of you that learned long ago to hide, protect, or carry what felt uncarriable.
My role isn't to interpret your experience or tell you what it means. It's to help create the conditions where your own inner knowing can surface. We move at a pace that honors your nervous system rather than pushing past what's actually sustainable.
Is This a Good Fit?
You might recognize yourself here if you're caught in recurring patterns that insight alone hasn't touched, or if you carry developmental or relational trauma that lives in the body more than the mind. Maybe shame, self criticism, perfectionism, or the exhausting habit of putting everyone else first feels familiar. Maybe you're navigating grief, loss, or a major life transition, or sitting with bigger questions of identity, spirituality, meaning, or purpose. Some people come to me feeling cut off from their body, their emotions, or their own instincts. Others are preparing for or integrating a psychedelic experience, or simply longing for relationships that feel more honest, more secure, and more alive. If any of that sounds like where you are, this work is probably a fit.
What Our Work Might Include
Our work is shaped by what you bring, not a predetermined formula. Depending on what's unfolding, I might draw on somatic awareness, Relational Somatic Healing, relational psychotherapy, attachment informed approaches, Internal Family Systems perspectives, mindfulness and present moment practices, parts work, psychedelic preparation and integration, trauma informed approaches, Wheel of Consent informed practice, or gentle experiential practices, whatever the moment calls for.
I draw on the foundational principles of Relational Somatic Healing, a body centered approach to healing through relationship developed at relationalsomatichealing.com. My practice is also informed by Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent, a framework for understanding giving, receiving, and the importance of genuine agreement in all forms of touch and care. You can learn more at schoolofconsent.org.
None of this is technique applied for its own sake. It's about staying responsive to what's actually happening between us in the room.
Practical Details
Individual weekly sessions (prep and integration) run 60 minutes, available in person in Portland or over Zoom. Fees follow the Bathtub Scale sliding scale model, ranging from $125 to $500 per session.
If you're working toward psilocybin facilitation, the process usually unfolds over 3 to 4 preparation sessions, one daylong psilocybin journey, and at least 4 integration sessions afterward. Usually I suggest continuing weekly therapy sessions ongoing. Preparation and integration sessions follow the same 60 minute format and Bathtub Scale rates, while the daylong journey is priced separately and also follows the Bathtub Scale.
One medicine session is typically just the beginning. Psilocybin can open profound insight and catalyze real change, but expecting a single session to reliably shift deeply held patterns sets most people up for disappointment. The real work happens in the integration that follows, and often across multiple journeys over time.
The full arc, from your first preparation session to final integration, typically runs 8 to 12 weeks depending on your needs and pace. For real change to take root, I usually suggest new clients plan to engage in this work for at least 6 months.