Transforming Touch (available online using Intentional Touch)

 

 

When Words Are Not Enough: Transforming Touch®

Is this for you?

Many people come to this work when they feel:

  • Overwhelmed or constantly "on alert" (anxiety).
  • Shut down or disconnected from their body.
  • That traditional talk therapy hasn't reached the deeper layers of their stress.

How It Works

Your nervous system may have learned to survive by staying in a state of high alert or deep withdrawal. Transforming Touch is a gentle, steady way of letting your body know that it is safe to settle.

  • The Pace: We move slowly. We follow your system, we never force it.
  • The Contact: The touch is light, respectful, and always discussed beforehand (you remain fully clothed).
  • The Result: It supports your system to find its way back to safety and connection, often reaching early developmental layers that words cannot touch.

Integrating Massage

Note for my long-standing clients: My background in bodywork means I deeply understand the language of the body. While Transforming Touch is a distinct therapeutic model, massage can be included as a thoughtful enhancement to support regulation when we agree it is helpful. It is never used to "fix," but to support your settling.

 

 

Gestalt Psychotherapy

 

My work as a Gestalt Psychotherapist begins with presence, slowing down enough to really listen to what is here. I believe that healing happens when we stop trying to be different and begin to meet ourselves just as we are. This is at the heart of the Paradoxical Theory of Change, that genuine transformation comes not from effort or striving, but from awareness and acceptance.

 

In our work together, I invite curiosity about your embodied experience, what you notice, what feels alive, and what may be held just beneath the surface. Therapy, for me, is a shared exploration rather than something to be fixed. It’s about creating a space where you can be met with warmth and understanding, where what is present can gently unfold in its own time.

 

I am deeply influenced by embodied approaches within Gestalt therapy, especially the work of Ruella Frank and James Kepner. The body carries so much of our history and wisdom, often speaking before words can. By paying attention to movement, breath, and felt sense, we can begin to hear what the body already knows and bring that into awareness with compassion.

 

My approach is relational and grounded in authenticity. I bring my own felt sense and embodied awareness into our meetings, staying with what is unfolding between us. For me, therapy is not about changing who we are, but about coming home, to ourselves, to what’s true, and to what’s quietly waiting to be known.