How do you respond to the emotions of your client

that arise during a bodywork session?

In a counseling session, how might you deepen a

client’s awareness of their emotional body?

How do you assist clients to actually “feel” what their

emotions feel like in their body?

In any session, how can you hold ground for

(yourself and) your client and make them feel safe?

I offer practitioners of touch and talk therapies ways to deepen their work with clients by integrating body/mind awareness.

Practitioners will have the opportunity to experience, as well as to practice hands-on sessions, integrating body/mind awareness in themselves and in their work with clients. I work with each practitioner on an individual basis, tailoring mentoring sessions to fit the practitioner’s desires and their unique and varied skills and skill levels. Please contact me for more information.

My professional experience in the field of Body/Mind:

Body/Mind Trainings:

Rubenfeld Synergy Method®, 1998-2002

Synergist Training progam, Ilana Rubenfeld & Faculty

Portland Gestalt Training Institute, 2003-2010

Working with the Body in Psychotherapy, 2006-2007

Training Program, Daniel Schiff, PhD

Biodynamic Cranial Therapy, 2005-present

Training/Mentorship

Todd Jackson, 2005 - present

Workshops:

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, 2009

Mike Boxhall, 2013, 2014

Cranial Therapy Teaching Assistant

Todd Jackson, Cranial I & II Workshops, 2013, 2015, 2016

Presentations:

International Association of Rubenfeld Synergists

Annual Conference, 2012, Ashland, OR

Qualities of a Healing Presence, A case for non-doing

International Cranial Teacher Study Group (Interface)

Interface 2010, Breitenbush, OR

A Prepatory Meditation for Meeting Clients

Interface 2012, Breitenbush, OR

Qualities of a Healing Presence, A case for non-doing

Interface 2013, Darry, Germany

Picasso Does Cranial, Art for cranial research?

Interface 2015, Flathead Lake, MT

Feeling Our Way Toward Stillness

Interface 2016, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada:

Breath as Movement, Breath as Sound

Infant/Maternal Cranial Sacral Therapy Conference

2012, Portland, OR

Qualities of a Healing Presence, A case for non-doing

Northwest Cranial Annual Retreat

2014, Copalis Beach, WA

Picasso Does Cranial, Art as Integration of a Cranial Session

2015, Copalis Beach, WA

Feeling Our Way Toward Stillness