Training & Credentials
Degrees, licensure, certifications, and the theoretical lineages that inform this work.
Degrees & Licensure
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M.A., Somatic Counseling Psychology
Naropa University, Boulder, CO — Body Psychotherapy Specialization (2026)
Thesis: Embodying the Outcome — Structural Alignment, Sensation, and Emotional Context in Somatic Psychotherapy - B.A., Studio Arts University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2012)
- Licensed Massage Therapist Colorado (2011–Present) · California (2020–2022)
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Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC)
Colorado DORA · License No. LPCC.0024723
Issued 05/18/2026 · Expires 12/31/2027 · Active
Supervised by Maggie VandenBerg, LMFT & Sybil Cummins, LMFT
Certifications & Trainings
- Somatic Experiencing Training Joybrain Counseling, Denver, CO (2025)
- Somatic Attachment Therapy Certification Embody Lab (2022)
- Heart & Thoracic Cage Mobilization, Levels 1 & 2 Fulcrum Institute, Colorado Springs — Timothy Bonack, DOMC, PT (2021–2022)
- Structural Integration & Manual Bodywork Over 15 years of clinical practice integrating Structural Integration, Neuromuscular Therapy, CranioSacral, and Acupressure
Informing Lineages
This work draws from several traditions — body-centered, relational, and depth-psychological. None of them gets applied as a template; each person's experience is unique.
Somatic Experiencing
Peter Levine's model for working with incomplete defensive responses and the physiology of trauma. Emphasizes titration, pendulation, and the body's innate capacity for self-regulation and completion.
IFS & Parts Work
Internal Family Systems offers a relational map of the inner world — protective parts, exiled vulnerabilities, and the Self that can witness and care for what has been fragmented. Used here in its somatic dimensions.
Structural Integration
Fifteen years of hands-on practice informs a structural sensibility — attention to how gravity, connective tissue, and postural organization participate in emotional patterning, and what becomes possible when the body is supported into greater ease and vertical alignment.
Hakomi & Sensorimotor
Mindfulness-based body psychotherapy traditions that use present-moment somatic experience as a primary therapeutic medium, reading gesture, posture, and involuntary movement as expressions of core material.
Bioenergetics & Relational
Lowen's work on character structure, energetic holding, and the relationship between chronic muscular tension and emotional restriction — held within a relational and consent-centered framework.
Polyvagal Theory
Stephen Porges' model of the autonomic nervous system provides a neurobiological framework for understanding social engagement, defensive states, and the conditions under which genuine connection and healing become possible.
The Thesis
My graduate thesis — Embodying the Outcome: Structural Alignment, Sensation, and Emotional Context in Somatic Psychotherapy — is a heuristic inquiry into the relationship between physical alignment, somatic awareness, and emotional integration in body psychotherapy.
The central proposition, which I call "clinical inversion," involves supporting the body into structural alignment first — through props, bolsters, and touch — and then attending to the emotional and sensory material that emerges from inhabiting that state. Rather than working emotion into structure, this approach works structure into emotion.
The inquiry draws on the bodywork traditions of Structural Integration alongside somatic psychotherapy frameworks including Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and IFS — proposing them as a coherent integrative model for body-centered clinical practice.
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