Private and group coaching to support you in moving past the painful and limiting impacts of trauma.
While the words 'trauma' and 'gift' might seem mutually exclusive, I would like to invite you to consider a way of looking at trauma that truly does offer each of us a gift. The path to receiving this gift is not necessarily an easy one and it does require the willingness to take responsibility for our own pain, even if we are not responsible for its origins, but the reward of the journey is worth
the effort. The "gold" is your life, your authenticity, your emotional and physical health, your spark, your ability to love and be loved. It is the You who hoped to be when consciousness took form as you. The services I offer are my way of contributing to the healing that is so deeply needed on our planet, and they come from my conviction that all healing has to start with our relationship to ourselves. Whether the symptoms that cause us pain appear as dysfunction in personal relationships, physical ailments, mental illness, disasters related to climate change, police brutality, racism, poverty, or deep political divisions, they all come back to behavior -- to the choices we make and the effects they have. How we behave towards ourselves, others, and our environment has a lot to do with how connected we are to ourselves and the degree to which we have attended to our own pain, for pain that is suppressed will eventually arise in the form of behavior that not only hurts ourselves, others, and the planet, but that deprives ourselves of the opportunity to truly enjoy life. I offer myself as a companion and safe space to anyone who feels ready to meet themself in a deeper, more compassionate way. I hold that you are already whole, innately worthy, and deeply wise, and that healing is ultimately a matter of becoming aware of how you've been hurt, what you have done to survive, and of gently reaching out with a loving hand to the parts of yourself that went into hiding because staying present wasn't safe. I am a certified grief and end-of-life coach through Coaching at End of Life, LLC. I am also a practitioner of Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy, or IoPT, -- a derivative of Systemic Family Constellation Work which was founded by Dr. Franz Ruppert of Munich, Germany. I was initially trained in Family Constellation Work at the Seattle Constellations Institute in 2010 and have been studying and practicing IoPT since 2014 with Vivian Broughton from the UK and with Marta Thorsheim of the Norway Institute for Trauma Therapy. At this time, all my coaching is based on 'The Intention Method' which is the practical application of IoPT. My work is informed by comprehensive study of the impact of systemic and attachment trauma, the value of mindfulness/self-awareness, and my own meditation practice.
