Approach
Gentle, embodied, and unhurried
Trauma-informed pacing isn't caution for its own sake. A nervous system that feels rushed protects itself, and self-protection is exactly what we're trying to make unnecessary.
Getting underneath the thinking brain
Insight is not the enemy. It’s just not sufficient. You can hold an accurate map of your childhood and still flinch at the same moment every time someone gets close.
You can go around and around acting out the same patterns no matter how many times you’ve told yourself let them go.
Experiential work means we don’t just talk about the flinch — we turn toward it, gently and manageably, while it is happening, with enough support that something other than the old response becomes possible. That is what repatterning at the source means in practice.
The methods I’m trained in
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) — meeting the difficult inner voices that criticize, protect and shut down, instead of overruling these inner voices.
- Inner Relationship Focusing — a gentle, body-led way of keeping company with what’s difficult.
- Somatic and experiential approaches — sensation, impulse and breath as live material.
- Psychodynamic and relational therapy — the past showing up in the present, including between us.
- Mindfulness-based practice — noticing without immediately fixing.
- Psychedelic integration — making sense of what surfaced, afterwards.
What trauma-informed means here
You set the pace. You can stop when you need to. Nothing gets pushed for the sake of a breakthrough, and I don’t interpret your resistance as a problem to be defeated. We meet what’s arising in you with curiosity and presence, and I speak plainly with you about what I think is happening.
A note on pace
Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly. Ketamine-assisted sessions run 180 minutes and happen in person at my office in Manhattan or in your home.
“Real change lives in the emotional and unconscious mind, in the attachment systems and the body.”
FAQ
How the work progresses
What does a session actually look like?
We talk, and then we slow down. When something lands — a tightening, a flush of shame, an urge to change the subject — we stay with it and let it unfold rather than analysing it from a distance.
Is somatic therapy the same as bodywork?
No. There is no physical touch. Somatic psychotherapy means we include what is happening in your body as information, alongside talking.
Do I need to be good at feeling things?
No. Numbness, blankness and 'I don't know' are workable material. Many people start there.
Will you give me homework?
Sometimes something we find in session is worth carrying into your week. It comes out of the work rather than from a worksheet.
How often do we meet?
Usually weekly. This work depends on continuity, especially early on.