Two distinct pathways. One place to begin.
Welcome. Please choose the area that best reflects what you are looking for.
Clinical Psychotherapy Services
A space for therapy, reflection and meaningful change.
Clinical psychotherapy services provided within my regulated professional practice.
Arts Education & Movement Coaching
A space for movement, creativity, learning and expression.
Arts education and dance coaching for individuals and groups outside the formal therapy relationship.
Please note: Clinical Psychotherapy Services and Arts Education & Movement Coaching are distinct areas of practice and are offered separately.
Whether you’re seeking…
Clinical Support
Creative Exploration
Artistic Practice
Community Engagement
… this is a space to reconnect with yourself as a whole.
From Disconnection to Wholeness
In a short story entitled A Painful Case, James Joyce writes, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” This is such a perfect portrayal of how so many of us go about living our lives—a short distance from ourselves. Being disconnected from our bodies often means becoming disconnected from our feelings, thoughts, emotions, senses and much of what makes us who we are. It also stands to reason that this divide within ourselves cuts us off from the world at large and nature itself, a baffling and stressful way to be.
At the heart of this work is the understanding that wholeness emerges when every part belongs. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts because each part matters deeply, and the flourishing of each strengthens the whole. This philosophy shapes everything I do—from individual psychotherapy and expressive arts to community work, dance and education.
Many people come to this work feeling disconnected from themselves, stuck in recurring patterns or unable to access their creativity, emotions or sense of purpose. Often, this disconnection feels as though parts of ourselves have become separated—from our bodies, our emotions, our creativity, one another or the larger communities and living systems to which we belong.
Mental health is about how we organize our experiences, and that includes the body, not just the mind. The mind exists within the larger ecosystem of a multidimensional human being, shaped by biological, social, emotional and spiritual experience.
Reclaiming our sense of embodiment is not a simple matter. Dancer, poet, teacher and author Daria Halprin playfully points out that, in some ways, “we keep losing our keys.” Sometimes the loss is small, and sometimes it is profound. Embodiment is a process of re-finding ourselves, again and again, and we need the body to do that.
How can we bridge that gap between ourselves and our bodies?
How can we expand our sense of embodiment and let our creative life be expressed fully?
How can we give ourselves permission to enter creativity and art-making while remaining fully present to the realities of our lives?
We need life-affirming ways to engage these questions. Living inevitably exposes us to loss, rupture, uncertainty and experiences that overwhelm our capacity to process them. The arts keep us creative and bring lightness into the process. We need emotional playgrounds to be able to play our way back to full feeling. Creative play is one step removed in building the safety to feel once again. Working with the arts metaphorically is also a way to apply homeopathy. Our practice becomes the tincture or medicine, and whatever wants to be drawn out comes to the surface. This is at the core of my work.
When talk alone is not enough, I offer creative ways for people to encounter their life and what matters most to them. There are structures and vocabulary we can use to reconnect to ourselves. In this way, we are not removed from our lives but are re-situated, squarely in the middle of our lives, in a new way.
Choreographer: Maggie Forgeron
Photographer: unknown
“The key to ending apathy is to tackle despair, which you do by reminding people of their connection to divinity, their capacity to create and co-create.”
Matthew Fox
Dancer Top: Maggie Forgeron
Background: Delphine Leroux
Photographer: unknown