Practice and Presence
Human experience takes shape in relationship, through early environments, cultural influences, and the protective patterns we develop to navigate what life demands. These ways of responding often continue long after the conditions that shaped them have changed.
Through attuned relationship, steady presence, and careful pacing, it becomes possible to explore these inner dynamics with discernment and integrity. What initially formed out of necessity can be met with awareness and gradually loosened.
Qualities like groundedness, responsiveness, resonance, and imagination tend to surface when there is enough support and space. From here, people begin to relate differently, to themselves, to others, and to what matters in their lives.
An Integrative, Relational Approach
Working Together
This work draws on a range of therapeutic perspectives that support presence, awareness, and responsiveness. These influences offer practical ways of attending to experience—through the body, in relationship, and across time. The approach offers a flexible and grounded foundation for exploring patterns, building awareness, and engaging with what matters.
Somatic Experiencing
Gestalt
Compassionate Inquiry
Internal Family Systems
Somatic Experiencing
A body-based approach that supports regulation of the nervous system by tracking sensation and restoring capacity after stress or overwhelm. It helps build awareness of physical responses and supports greater resilience, allowing people to meet experience with more stability, presence, and choice.
Gestalt
Gestalt supports awareness through direct experience, focusing on the present moment and how we relate to ourselves and others. It invites whole-person engagement, emotional, physical, and relational, creating space for patterns to emerge and be explored in real time, through contact, awareness, and relationship.
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole.