My Path to This Work

My path to body psychotherapy has been both personal and shaped by a longstanding interest in people and the world around us.

I spent most of my childhood in Belgium before moving frequently from the age of ten onward. Later, I studied international relations and spent time in Morocco, Spain, and Chile, exploring language, migration, human rights, and the ways larger political and social systems shape our individual lives.

Those experiences eventually brought me to social work, where my understanding of healing continued to expand beyond the individual to include our relationships, communities, histories, and the systems we live within.

I came to body psychotherapy through my own experience, and honestly, it changed my life.

I began to recognize ways I had been holding myself back that I hadn’t even known were there. Things I thought were simply part of who I was. What surprised me most wasn’t just that these patterns could change, but how much more of life could be experienced as they did.

Not that life suddenly became easier or that difficult things stopped happening, but I found more freedom within it. More capacity to feel, express myself, make choices, experience pleasure, and follow the things that allow our aliveness full presence.

What continues to draw me to this work is the possibility that exists within each of us, beyond the ways we’ve learned to protect ourselves. What that looks like is deeply personal, and no two paths unfold in quite the same way. I love being able to accompany people in that process, creating space for whatever is uniquely theirs to emerge.

My Approach

I work from the understanding that our protective patterns developed for reasons. They are not our fault, and they deserve compassion and curiosity. At the same time, as adults, we have the opportunity and responsibility to begin relating to them differently.

Through body psychotherapy and Core Energetics, we explore where energy may be held back, how our patterns show up in the present, and what needs may remain unmet. The work can include conversation, contact, breath, movement, emotional expression, and relational support.

Healing rarely follows a straight line. It moves in spirals, sometimes bringing us back to familiar places with new awareness, capacity, and choice.

I see my role as providing a supportive, engaged space for this exploration, without deciding what another person’s process should look like.

Through this process, we may discover a greater sense of freedom—not freedom from the experience of being human, but the freedom to experience it more fully.

Outside the Therapy Room

I’m endlessly drawn to mysticism, the imaginal, and the countless ways we encounter the divine within ourselves and the world around us.

Outside of work, I love spending time with friends and family, dancing, strength training, being in nature, reading, poetry, and all things creative.

I’m almost always following a new curiosity (a nod to my 3/5 sacral authority). Lately, that’s meant learning the cello, improv, and animal communication.

I love the wyrd and wonderful— theater, comedy, expressive movement arts like InterPlay, and exploring different ways of understanding ourselves and the world, from constructivism to astrology and the Gene Keys.

Mostly, I’m fascinated by how we create meaning, find wonder in the ordinary, and make room for a little magic along the way.