A space where all parts of your experience can be explored with care.
An Integrative Approach
When our thoughts, emotions, and personal history move in different directions, we can feel divided inside or pulled into old patterns. The columns below illustrate this separation, and what can emerge when these inner experiences are acknowledged side by side. Bringing them into conversation is one way people begin to feel more internally aligned.
Head
Thinking/ Interpreting
Head (Executive Functioning / Cognitive Mediation)
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What This Part Does:
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Helps you make sense of experiences and stay in control (Beck, 1976).
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When It Gets Stuck:
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Overthinking, intellectualizing, or “knowing better but not feeling different” (McWilliams, 2011; Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000).
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When It Leads:
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Insight increases, but emotional and relational patterns stay the same (Shedler, 2010; Wampold, 2015).​
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What Supports Integration:
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Bringing emotional experience into meaning-making (Greenberg, 2015).
Heart
Affect Regulation
Heart (Affect Regulation / Emotional Processing/ Attachment Science)
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What This Part Does:
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Helps you feel, signal needs, and connect to others (Bowlby, 1988).
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When It Gets Stuck:
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Emotions flood or shut down; needs become hard to name or trust (Schore, 2012; Taylor, 1997).
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When It Leads:
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Choices are driven by emotional intensity or emotional avoidance (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007).
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What Supports Integration:
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Co-regulation and supported emotional expression in relationship (Schore, 2012).
History
Learned Patterns/ Memory
History (Implicit Memory / Relational Templates)
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What This Part Does:
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Stores earlier relational learning about safety, closeness, and identity (Stern, 2010).
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When It Gets Stuck:
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Old patterns repeat; reactions feel immediate, automatic, or “just who I am” (Bromberg, 2006; Cozolino, 2017).
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When It Leads:
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The past shapes the present without awareness (Shedler, 2010).
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What Supports Integration:
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Bringing implicit patterns into awareness and differentiating protective parts (Schwartz, 1995).
Therapy and Supervision Services
Between You
Couples work that includes the self.
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In conflict, you often go where you’ve gone before. Together, we can get curious about that place.
This process may support
• Recognizing emotional needs
• Understanding what reactions protect
• Bringing needs forward without shrinking, demanding, or bracing
• Moving toward patterns of understanding rather than replaying old ones
Within You
Individual psychotherapy that doesn't happen in isolation.
You didn’t become who you are alone, and I don’t assume you exist apart from the relationships and environments that shape you.
This process may support:
• Moving from insight toward embodied awareness
• Experiencing emotion with greater safety and range
• Exploring new ways of relating, within therapy and beyond
Beyond You
Supervision that's relational and reflective. ​
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This space attends to the therapist’s inner world as much as the clinical one. Presence matters because clients often rely on it: our steadiness, curiosity, and capacity to contain experience can shape the safety of the work itself.
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This process may support:
• Deepening relational awareness
• Integrating personal and professional growth
• Sustaining therapeutic work with clarity and compassion
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“We should not strive to eliminate our complexes but to come into accord with them; they legitimately direct our conduct in the world.”​
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— Freud, in his letter to Ferenczi dated November 17, 1911.
