I offer in-person and online body-centered therapy to address:
-Trauma
-Post-Traumatic Stress
-Childhood Adversity
-Grief and Loss
Trauma can include a very wide variety of life experiences, including living through violence, harmful relationships, grief and loss, discrimination, an unstable childhood, accidents, and much more. However, the through-line is the lasting impact it has on you today, and the way the experience seeps into your present life.
Body-centered therapy may be effective for you, if you experience:
-Re-occurring and distressing memories, or flashbacks.
-Periods of time without any memory before or after a significant event.
-Feeling sensitive, “touchy” or reactive in certain situations, places or interactions.
-Avoiding certain situations, places, people, emotions or interactions.
-Anxiety, fear, guilt or shame in a way that you feel needs to change.
-Depression, sadness, or isolation in a way that impacts your life and well-being.
-Re-occurring nightmares or disturbing dreams.
I use practices that center the body, such as mindfulness, body-focusing and movement in my work, depending on what is most effective for the person I am supporting.
Body-centered therapy is based on the belief that our bodies continue to hold certain difficult experiences and emotions long after the incident is over because we have not had the opportunity to fully feel, acknowledge or complete them in a safe way. Body-centered therapy can allow for a safe and contained space to understand what we are still holding.
I have more than a decade of experience working with people from communities who have been subject to oppression in all forms. As someone from mixed Iranian and European descent living on unceded Indigenous lands, my life perspective is shaped by growing up in a family who has experienced migration, forced displacement and the layered dynamics of living in diaspora.
I believe everyone deserves to feel dignified and safe – I am committed to anti-oppressive principles, decolonization, and affirm lived-experiences of all gender, sexuality, race, (dis)ability, sex-work, substance use, poverty, and other experiences marginalized in capitalist society. I understand that our experiences in the world are shaped by our contextual identities, privileges and the ways we are subjected to oppression.
