Individuals work with me to learn the language of their bodies, emotions and energies.   We restore calm, boost vital energy and address ways to be responsive to our body’s signals and needs.

When people come to me for individualized nervous system regulation mentorship they are often rebounding from periods of intense stress and battling fatigue, burnout and other health-related issues. Helping service professionals, including nurses and clinical psychotherapists suffering from the impact of compassion fatigue, or “secondary trauma,” find this approach helps them to generate a more effective life-work balance and flexible mindset.

We work together to develop an understanding of the neurophysiological connection to our emotional, mental and spiritual well being, and together, we cultivate and harness the body-felt awareness and sensation and the breath as mechanisms to release tension and invite a sense of ease and spaciousness.

Using the Polyvagal Theory Chart of Trauma Response as a foundation for understanding, we develop practical and prescriptive tools, exercises and strategies to apply for each of the three polyvagal states–ventral vagal state of regulation (green), Sympathetic (yellow) state of activation or mobilization, and dorsal vagal (red) state of conservation, shut down or collapse.  This individualized approach looks different for everyone!