Ready to Engage your Life?
I help my clients find more intimacy, more connection and more joy.
Are you ready for a deeper and richer understanding of yourself?
Are you ready for a deeper and richer understanding of yourself?
More Than 20 Years of Experience
I have spent over 20 years exploring my own mind/body connection and personal potential through yoga, meditation, hypnosis, triathlon training, rock climbing, cycling, and fire walking. My graduate degree is in Somatic Psychotherapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies - and I am thrilled to have found a program that incorporates so perfectly my varying areas of interest and passion.
I created Yin Warrior Health, a program designed to heal our relationship with food, body, and weight, and BodyAwake, a unique form of holistic fitness which heightens physical and emotional sensitivity.
I created Yin Warrior Health, a program designed to heal our relationship with food, body, and weight, and BodyAwake, a unique form of holistic fitness which heightens physical and emotional sensitivity.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
- Mary Oliver
An Individualized Approach to Therapy
My style is engaged, relational, fun, and integrates somatic, experiential, mindfulness, cognitive and psychodynamic approaches. I have received training in Francine Shapiro's EMDR which is a comprehensive psychotherapy that accelerates the treatment of a wide range of pathologies and self-esteem issues related to disturbing events and present life conditions.
This interactional, standardized approach has been empirically tested in over 20 randomized controlled studies with trauma patients, and hundreds of published case reports evaluating a considerable range of presenting complaints, including depression, anxiety, phobias, excessive grief, somatic conditions and addictions. I have also studied with Stanley Keleman, Christina Loeffel, and Peter Wright in the Formative Psychology™ method which teaches the process of voluntary management of behavior. The intent is to support individual expression, deepen somatic experience, and gain practical skills in using the formative methodology when working with oneself or others. I also completed a yearlong intensive study group with Francine Lapides, MFT exploring Psychoneurology and the importance of brain science on therapy and treatment.
I am particularly drawn to working with couples in varying stages of distress. I enjoy teaching communication skills and attachment styles and thrive on disrupting old patterns to allow for new experiences of healing and connection. I work from both a Formative frame and Dr. Stan Tatkin's Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) which I'm a Level II certified therapist. All couples welcome!!
This interactional, standardized approach has been empirically tested in over 20 randomized controlled studies with trauma patients, and hundreds of published case reports evaluating a considerable range of presenting complaints, including depression, anxiety, phobias, excessive grief, somatic conditions and addictions. I have also studied with Stanley Keleman, Christina Loeffel, and Peter Wright in the Formative Psychology™ method which teaches the process of voluntary management of behavior. The intent is to support individual expression, deepen somatic experience, and gain practical skills in using the formative methodology when working with oneself or others. I also completed a yearlong intensive study group with Francine Lapides, MFT exploring Psychoneurology and the importance of brain science on therapy and treatment.
I am particularly drawn to working with couples in varying stages of distress. I enjoy teaching communication skills and attachment styles and thrive on disrupting old patterns to allow for new experiences of healing and connection. I work from both a Formative frame and Dr. Stan Tatkin's Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) which I'm a Level II certified therapist. All couples welcome!!
Serving the Bay Area
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist #87580 with an office in the Mission District of San Francisco. I see individuals, couples and families and am currently enrolling a group in Relationship/Intimacy. I also lead the New Mother's group at Natural Resources. I will be on Maternity leave from July, 2017 - Spring, 2018. Please reach out if you'd like to be contacted when I return.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Questions? Contact Lily
(415) 494-9606
(415) 494-9606
