Holistic Healing Therapy & Wellness
I am grateful you are here! A strong, trusting, and collaborative relationship between therapist and client is what makes therapy successful. This is your journey and I am here to serve as a trusted guide. No one path to healing works for everyone, so I tailor my approach to each client’s unique needs, strengths, and goals. Whether through mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, poetry therapy, or solution-focused techniques, I’ll work from a non-judgmental, strength-based perspective to support you on your journey. My holistic approach considers the whole self—physical, emotional, social, practical, and spiritual/life purpose.
I am passionate about utilizing the creative arts to initiate healing, hope and wellness. It is a great joy to be able to offer poetry therapy either in tandem with an individual psychotherapy session or as a stand-alone session. I embrace diversity and am open to working with anyone who comes from a place of open-mindedness, willingness, and a genuine desire for growth.
You are worthy, lovable, and capable of creating a beautiful life centered around what is most important to you. My clients are those seeking relief from distress and wanting to move forward to holistic health and wellness. I specialize in working with adults who are navigating major life changes, relationship struggles, anxiety/depression, aging, caregiving, serious illness, chronic disease/pain, and grief.
I look forward to connecting with you!
Virtual or In-Person
Cottage Street Studios
One Cottage Street
Easthampton MA
413-345-6263
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
Copyrighted material for educational and therapeutic purposes only.
Photo taken by Kara Joseph, Art in the Orchard, Easthampton MA
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver
Copyrighted material for educational and therapeutic purposes only.