Elizabeth Rose (she/her/they)

How do you recover when a person you love is gone? Or some change in life has left you somewhere you never thought you'd be? Some pain may always be there, in that space, but it is possible to grow beyond the limitations of that loss and discover more in life.

It can be so hard when fear controls some aspect of your life. Particularly when you might not even know why you are experiencing anxiety. Whether past events or recent ones are haunting you, we can find tools together that make it easier to take back your sense of agency and move forward towards your goals.

The world moves so fast. We are hardly through one stage of life, when another is upon us. It can just get so overwhelming and making decisions or feeling good about your accomplishments can seem like a real challenge. If you need help navigating any passage in life, from expecting a new baby to downsizing after the nest is empty and beyond, I create a safe space for goal setting, life review, communication issues or just feeling like you're ready to move into the next stage of your life.

When distress has left us tired and unsettled, it's easy to "default" to comfortable habits, that may no longer give the relief they once did. Sometimes life just seems "blah" and we check out. Re-learning how to "show up" for yourself in the moment can re-connect us, but sometimes, first, we have to look deeply at some challenging feelings that may have kept us apart from ourselves. Mindful therapies create a safe space to process and move beyond old habits to new joy, moment by moment.

Relating to others is how we first begin to understand the world. But maybe that wasn't always easy, or even safe, and some of those patterns continue to affect our decisions, our relationships, our success in life, even our health, to this very day. We might not know why we continue to enact repeating patterns that seem to take us in the opposite direction from where we think we want to go, but it is possible to gain insight, to choose differently and to create ease and safety in our lives

There's a reason we say we "feel" emotions. Our emotions are embodied. Anyone who's ever had a "broken heart" or gotten "hopping mad" can tell you about the physical as well as emotional sensations of these feelings. By tuning in to our bodies, we gain a key to our authentic emotions and by using somatic tools, we can also guide our emotional states into calmer waters when we feel ourselves getting disturbed, angry or upset.