For Referring Providers
If you are a counselor or social worker in private practice, you do not need to go it alone. Think of me as an adjunct therapist, complementing your work to further support your client. I provide a unique blend of Art Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®. This combination helps to move clients beyond talking and into deeper levels of emotional and physiological awareness, which can be key to moving them through patterns that were stuck before.
Clients can come to see me while they also see you, and the work you do together can only benefit from the addition of new modalities. My office becomes a place to practice what you are discussing in therapy in a more embodied way.
Why refer to me?
The unique blend of Art Therapy and Somatic Experiencing® can be transformational for your clients.
Good candidates for referrals are stable in your care and you feel they are ready for this work. The following are examples of people I work well with and can support, however, everyone is welcome:
Individuals struggling with PTSD
Chronic patterns of overwhelm or shut down
Individuals getting stuck in old survival strategies, such as fight, flight, or freeze
Individuals with chronic stress responses that often come with challenging physiological symptoms.
Clients who experienced a sudden shock event like a medical trauma, life change, fall, or car accident.
Clients with a trauma history who you think can benefit from supplementary somatic/art therapy sessions.
Frequent Questions from Referring Therapists
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It is amazing that accessing and noticing the body is now more common in therapeutic settings, and I love that you do this. Keep it up! In my work, the awareness of body sensations is only the beginning. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states, releasing traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. This could be a profound addition to the care your client is receiving with you.
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Absolutely, yes! I will have your client fill out an ROI so I can speak to you. At minimum, I will email you one a month with an update on the work your client and I are doing together. I love collaborating and working in teams, so if more communication would help, we can do that, too.
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I will never encourage your clients to stop working with you as a primary therapist. I like working with clients in a consistent therapeutic relationship with a primary therapist, so that my work can be pinpointed and specific to exploring self-protection responses and nervous system regulation.
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EMDR can be a very effective process for some clients. But, perhaps you have a client whose nervous system is struggling to metabolize the EMDR and feels retraumatized by the process. This client could benefit from building more capacity in their system. Through SE, I can help support this client in building capacity for this type of work, so they may be ready down the road.
As well, you may have clients whose trauma presentation is more somatic/in the body, which may not shift as well with EMDR. Through SE, I can work on these somatic physiological processes to build nervous system resiliency.
Do you want to know more about my approach?
As a provider, you can sign up for a 20-minute call, too. We can discuss my approach and even practice some together.