Hello, glad you’re seeking out a Brainspotting practitioner! Whoever you work with, if they’re really embodying the spirit of Brainspotting, should be right alongside you in your process. As a consultant level practitioner, I help take newer Brainspotting therapists through their certification with us.

I’ve chosen Brainspotting as a primary approach because it’s not just a technique: it’s a nonpathologizing way of doing therapy, which gives clients the greatest access to progress, even if it is being used as an underlay for other modalities. We don’t see people as ‘disordered’, or believing humans can be accurately reflected by the DSM and for-profit insurance-based protocols.

We see ourselves as experiencing life from a holistic, cause-and-effect perspective (which is exactly how my graduate program at Naropa U taught graduates, a stark alternative to pathologizing standard models). The manifestations of developmental experience, trauma, cultural and genetic influences, things which we can’t even know because they are so many… these create our experience, and a very intelligent nervous system and body wisdom – our total neuroexperience – is what we are handed and live within. Responses to neglect or trauma are adaptations, not disorders. It’s a very different way of seeing the world than the disease-based medical model.

It’s an approach which blends seamless with my graduate studies in Buddhist Psychology: we follow the client, as opposed to coming at your experience with a predetermined set of assumptions—about your nervous system and reality.

A therapists’s uncertainty is not a lack of skill—it allows us to be attuned to what’s really happening. With trauma processing this is key.

Not having an agenda or assumptions creates safety: it means regardless of your religion or lack of religion, sexuality, any identity, your specific history… your therapist can be right there with you, not pushing you into their expectations.

I started my Brainspotting journey in 2019, and combine it alongside multiple other areas: Somatic Experiencing, ketamine assisted psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, couples therapy, sex therapy, and a prior background in addictions counseling.

The underlying foundation is one of non-judgement, non-pathologizing and spaciousness.

My Brainspotting training includes all phases, and almost a dozen specialty trainings including: working with addictions, performance for sports / professional success / artistic and creativity, complex physical /medical conditions, developmental trauma.

I use Brainspotting and somatic approaches when working with a wide range of clients: those who have experienced accidents and injuries, trauma of all sorts including early/developmental or sexual trauma, people seeking ketamine therapy or other psychedelic integration, those who wish to make a lifestyle change, enhance performance in any part of life, as well as with couples and sex therapy (I am PACT couples therapy trained and sex therapy trained with the Sexual Health Alliance).

I bring the open, nonjudgmental foundations of my mindfulness-based training, alongside a set of skills that focuses on clients own healing and growth processes rather than fitting a client into an overly simple box. This is not one size fits all 🙂

Brainspotting is a main avenue for my work, and I have seen clients do so much more with this approach than talk therapy. Where we look goes far beyond how we feel!

re: insurance, my clinic Peregrine Counseling takes Medicaid and multiple private carriers. I also do coaching and can often work cross border.

if consulting, I can bring in advanced techniques for regulation which were taught at Naropa U.