I am a Gestaltist

Throughout my years doing clinical work with trauma, I always felt like there was a missing piece to the puzzle on how to truly help others on their journey towards healing. Cognitive understanding isn’t enough. We also need to help our bodies let go of the stressful experiences and memories they have been carrying for us.

Gestalt considers the whole person – it understands that humans are an intricate network of our minds, bodies, experiences, and environments that should be fully tended to in order to achieve and maintain wellness. Trauma and enduring stress are stored in the body, which over time can lead to chronic tension, pain, illness, reduced mental wellness and overall disengagement with ourselves and those around us. It also zaps us from our joy, our creativity, our passions, our inner flame that drives us.

When these experiences and feelings are given a safe opportunity to be acknowledged and released, rather than quieted, shoved down and stored — we become free. Horses see right through us. They are intuitive, present creatures by their very nature. As prey animals, it is what helps them read the world around them and survive. That means they can “see” us — our truest energy, unspoken beliefs & emotions — before we even see (or acknowledge) it ourselves. This is their gift… this is how they help us heal.

Through the EGC Method I am able to partner with the amazing healing energy of horses to help individuals increase their awareness of the underlying “stuff” that is holding them back. Rather than the more traditional talk-therapy approach, the practice provides an intensive, experientially-based process using Gestalt techniques to create a deep, somatic, mind-body release.