Cultivating Resilience and Wellbeing
I offer individual work with adults who are struggling with life transitions and adjustments, stress and struggles within relationships (including parenting), who have experienced trauma, grief, and loss, and those who are experiencing stress, overwhelm, and burnout in their personal or professional lives. I am passionate about working with my clients, as I enjoy walking with a person through their journey of self-discovery and self-improvement, and helping clients understand themselves better and learn new ways of experiencing life and increasing wellbeing and contentment with life. Resilience and wellbeing is something everyone can achieve. The first step is awareness and understanding ourselves better and knowing what leads to stress and overwhelm for us individually. The next steps are gaining the individualized tools to cultivate, support, and maintain wellbeing and resiliency.
I also work with helping professionals who are experiencing burnout, overwhelm, and struggles impacting optimal functioning. I am passionate about helping other professionals learn about their stress responses through a Polyvagal lens, re-tune their nervous system towards resilience and wellbeing, and live a more balanced and fulfilled life. When we feel depleted and overwhelmed as professionals, we are not able to show up for those we serve in ways they need and deserve. I love building relationships and connections with others, which is why I love supporting other professionals build new skills and perspectives that expand their capacity to feel energized by their work and not depleted. When our work focuses on supporting others by being attuned, present, and fully engaged in a heartfelt way, we can reach overwhelm and depletion quickly if we do not have a resilient nervous system. I provide an invitation allowing me to help you cultivate the resiliency you need to show up in your professional role, to feel fulfilled and energized by your work, and to reconnect you to the passion you once had in serving and supporting others.
My foundational approach is anchored in The Polyvagal Theory, which provides an explanation of how our autonomic nervous system functions and is related to our behaviors and stress responses (including the flight/fight/freeze responses to perceived threats and danger), thoughts, beliefs, emotions, engagement with others, and perceptions of experiences in life. Our nervous system subconsciously senses and perceives cues of safety or threat within our environments, internally, and with other people; it responds accordingly to past experiences past conditioning. My clients find it helpful in becoming aware of what triggers them in a variety of ways and how this impacts their ability to function in a variety of ways and situations, including interactions with others. Once a person becomes aware, they can then regain a sense of control, find strategies and tools that are most helpful, and be better able to manage difficult situations and stressors experienced in everyday life. Utilizing HeartMath techniques adds another layer when working with the autonomic nervous system. These techniques hold a unique style in connecting with the heart's intelligence, which allows us to reach a state of coherence (similar to a ventral vagal parasympathetic state) through connecting with positive or renewing emotions and attitudes. When we do this, we build resilience in our nervous system, improve stress management, and increase our capacity for wellbeing.
Polyvagal Theory: the Science of Feeling Safe
Developed by world-renowned researcher and Unyte’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Theory focuses on what is happening in the body and the nervous system, and explains how our sense of safety, danger or life-threat can impact our behavior.
Understanding Polyvagal Theory gives us a scientific framework that can be applied through physiological, or “bottom-up” therapies, to help change and improve how we feel, think and connect with others. If you want to learn more about The Polyvagal Theory, you can watch the video below and visit this website to read more information: science-of-feeling-safe.
The Safe and Sound Protocol
Through my work focused on the nervous system, I have become a certified practitioner of the Safe and Sound Protocol. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based therapeutic program designed to reduce sound sensitivities and improve auditory processing, behavioral state regulation, increased flexibility and adaptability, and increased social engagement behaviors. As a practical application of Polyvagal Theory, the SSP acts as a non-invasive, acoustic vagal nerve stimulator, helping to re-tune the nervous system to better support connection, collaboration and resilience. The SSP involves listening to specially filtered music through headphones alongside a provider, in-person or remotely. Suitable for children and adults, the SSP has demonstrated benefits for individuals with trauma, anxiety, sensory processing differences, stress management struggles and more.
If you would like to learn more about the Safe and Sound Protocol, you can watch the second video on this page and visit this website: https://www.whatisthessp.com/
I also work with helping professionals who are experiencing burnout, overwhelm, and struggles impacting optimal functioning. I am passionate about helping other professionals learn about their stress responses through a Polyvagal lens, re-tune their nervous system towards resilience and wellbeing, and live a more balanced and fulfilled life. When we feel depleted and overwhelmed as professionals, we are not able to show up for those we serve in ways they need and deserve. I love building relationships and connections with others, which is why I love supporting other professionals build new skills and perspectives that expand their capacity to feel energized by their work and not depleted. When our work focuses on supporting others by being attuned, present, and fully engaged in a heartfelt way, we can reach overwhelm and depletion quickly if we do not have a resilient nervous system. I provide an invitation allowing me to help you cultivate the resiliency you need to show up in your professional role, to feel fulfilled and energized by your work, and to reconnect you to the passion you once had in serving and supporting others.
My foundational approach is anchored in The Polyvagal Theory, which provides an explanation of how our autonomic nervous system functions and is related to our behaviors and stress responses (including the flight/fight/freeze responses to perceived threats and danger), thoughts, beliefs, emotions, engagement with others, and perceptions of experiences in life. Our nervous system subconsciously senses and perceives cues of safety or threat within our environments, internally, and with other people; it responds accordingly to past experiences past conditioning. My clients find it helpful in becoming aware of what triggers them in a variety of ways and how this impacts their ability to function in a variety of ways and situations, including interactions with others. Once a person becomes aware, they can then regain a sense of control, find strategies and tools that are most helpful, and be better able to manage difficult situations and stressors experienced in everyday life. Utilizing HeartMath techniques adds another layer when working with the autonomic nervous system. These techniques hold a unique style in connecting with the heart's intelligence, which allows us to reach a state of coherence (similar to a ventral vagal parasympathetic state) through connecting with positive or renewing emotions and attitudes. When we do this, we build resilience in our nervous system, improve stress management, and increase our capacity for wellbeing.
Polyvagal Theory: the Science of Feeling Safe
Developed by world-renowned researcher and Unyte’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Theory focuses on what is happening in the body and the nervous system, and explains how our sense of safety, danger or life-threat can impact our behavior.
Understanding Polyvagal Theory gives us a scientific framework that can be applied through physiological, or “bottom-up” therapies, to help change and improve how we feel, think and connect with others. If you want to learn more about The Polyvagal Theory, you can watch the video below and visit this website to read more information: science-of-feeling-safe.
The Safe and Sound Protocol
Through my work focused on the nervous system, I have become a certified practitioner of the Safe and Sound Protocol. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based therapeutic program designed to reduce sound sensitivities and improve auditory processing, behavioral state regulation, increased flexibility and adaptability, and increased social engagement behaviors. As a practical application of Polyvagal Theory, the SSP acts as a non-invasive, acoustic vagal nerve stimulator, helping to re-tune the nervous system to better support connection, collaboration and resilience. The SSP involves listening to specially filtered music through headphones alongside a provider, in-person or remotely. Suitable for children and adults, the SSP has demonstrated benefits for individuals with trauma, anxiety, sensory processing differences, stress management struggles and more.
If you would like to learn more about the Safe and Sound Protocol, you can watch the second video on this page and visit this website: https://www.whatisthessp.com/