About Kindle The Soul

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As most of our wounds happen in relationship, so we heal most deeply in relationship  

​From infancy into adulthood, relationships have a powerful impact on our sense of wellbeing in mind, body and spirit. Maybe you were hurt in your family relationships as a child, or maybe you are struggling in current relationship to a loved one, or to people in your workplace. Either way, it is my job as your therapist to provide a safe enough space for you to explore these struggles in hopes to recover from them.   

In my work, I strive to cultivate this opportunity for healing in relationship by attuning to you with an engaged presence, acceptance and mindful attention that can be rare outside of the contained, protected space of psychotherapy.  

​​​While I am interested in helping clients uncover and heal the parts of themselves that have been squashed or carefully guarded as a result of fear, hurt or trauma, I also have a profound respect for the defenses that came to be. I trust the pace at which your heart and soul choose to reveal themselves to you and your process with me.

My work is fundamentally client-centered and supported by a balance of mindfulness and the latest research in attachment theory and neuroscience. I draw from a broad range of modalities depending on clients' interests and needs.  

In Depth Psychotherapy, all parts of you are taken into consideration:  mind, heart, body, and soul. I am interested in how all the parts of ourselves are constantly in dialogue, whether we know it or not. 

My job is to help you gently integrate the conscious parts of your life with the less conscious parts so that you can feel empowered to make informed choices in your life, rather than letting the unconscious run the show. 

This can be done through talking, mindful inquiry, dreamwork, Movement, Sandplay therapy, or play, in the case of children.​​

Jungian Sandplay Therapy, much like dreamwork, is a powerful and safe tool for both adults and children to work through unconscious patterns or unresolved trauma. ​For adults, it  can provide a much needed break from restricting words and retold stories. It is an opportunity to process and heal past hurts in a safe, symbolic and creative way.

Because their brains are still developing and their cognitive ability to process feelings is not yet established, it is the perfect tool for children. Throughout childhood, most children struggle to effectively express and make sense of their feelings verbally. Sandplay offers them a child-friendly language to metabolize difficult feelings so that they may perform better academically, and manage emotions and relationships better.

Its non-directive, non-intrusive, and deeply attuned quality is what makes Sandplay so powerful as a therapeutic tool. The therapist takes the role of entrusted witness and carefully observes the sandplay process unfolding without interpreting or interfering. This approach allows the client's psyche to reveal itself at its own pace, creating its own powerful solutions to underlying problems.

The therapist's presence as observer is essential since most of our trauma is on due to a lack of empathic witnessing. It allows the client to relax and to feel held and seen in his or her previously unwitnessed struggles. This can be especially helpful if the conflict being addressed feels too activating or too unsafe for the client to talk about.