The main difference between traditional talk therapy and mindfulness-based experiential therapy is that mindfulness-based experiential therapy places a high value on being embodied in experience as you share about it. Embodiment in experience is facilitated by using mindfulness. What that often means is slowing down and getting curious about your inner world as you are sharing: what does saying that feel like in your body? What thoughts or feelings arise as you feel that body sensation?

My practice of therapy is rooted in Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology, and I bring an anti-oppressive lens to my work. I practice using the following modalities:

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Couples and intimate partners all have patterns in the way that they relate based on their early attachment histories. EFT uses present-moment experience to become more aware of these usually unconscious ways of relating and help partners find more connection by communicating more vulnerably and directly to each other.

• Sensorimotor Therapy: Present-moment experience is used, with special attention on body sensations. This modality can be especially powerful when there is trauma. Bringing mindful attention to body sensations allows trauma activation to processed in a manageable way.

• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: Hakomi Therapy uses present-moment experience, like thoughts, body sensations, feelings, etc., to elucidate “core material” (unconscious ways of being in the world) and transform it, often through mindful experiments.