Your experience is yours

 Tending the Roots is all about exploring and understanding what makes you, you, and learning how to better take care of the precious being that is yourself. Your uniqueness is influenced by your needs, values, passions, relationships, environment, and experiences. The stress and discomfort of wearing our many masks can be absolutely exhausting. Yet, these masks are what have helped you survive and even thrive up until this point. To tend the roots, we will look at your past and present with grace, kindness, and gentle curiosity in order to help you decide what you want to continue tending, and what may need a new strategy to best take care of you. 

My work experience started with those who have experienced sexual abuse, minor sex trafficking, and those with complex trauma. Since then, I have found delight in working with a vast variety of clients from different backgrounds, life experiences, and identities.  I enjoy looking at how social, spiritual, and family structures have informed how we exist in this world.  I utilize EMDR, IFS informed EMDR, mindfulness techniques (DBT), somatic practices, and ego state work to pair with your expertise in your experience. This pairing is a true partnership, needing both of us committed to do the work. 

In a world that has benefited from the exploitation of our needs and boundaries, I look forward to rebelliously tending to the care of you. I hope to explore your perspective and past experiences to gain better insight into what needs and boundaries have been neglected. We then will discover new and previously used strategies and skills to not only accept that you are allowed to have those needs and boundaries, you also have capacity to take care of them. We will lovingly look at iterations of you that have helped you survive, and we will offer them the care they’ve deserved.