Connecting you with Inner Flow
“I have anxieties. I have doubts. I have pride issues. I have ego issues. I’ve got them all. I’ve got every issue you can think of and I’m still dealing with it, and hopefully I get better with it.”
-Bubba Watson
My approach
I take a person-centered approach to build rapport, cultivate a supportive therapeutic partnership, and support clients in identifying and working through automatic stress responses and performance blocks. My work helps clients connect with themselves and learn to trust their innate healing capacity and potential. I partner with clients, meeting them where they are in the present moment to work through whatever is coming up for them. All services are provided virtually.
A Personalized Approach
It’s essential that my clients feel supported and heard. I partner with clients, meeting them where they are in the present moment to work through whatever is coming up for them. I believe that finding a good "fit" is critical to any healing journey.
The Approach
Everyone faces adversity in life. When adversity creates an emotional charge, the body responds. If left unprocessed, adversities can get stuck in the mind and body, wreaking havoc on your nervous system and imposing performance barriers in the mind and body. To address this natural human response, Inner Flow Counseling utilizes a neurophysiological, psychological lens of healing to athletes, first responders, helping professionals, and high achievers process and release life’s stressors and performance blocks that limit peak performance. This lens of healing takes traditional talk-therapy to a deeper level to support cortical and subcortical healing within the nervous system and strengthening the mind-body connection. Inner FLow Counseling utilizes cognitive and somatic therapeutic healing approaches, while bringing to light inner wisdom and the mind-body capacity for healing. Focused mindfulness and understanding the mind-body connection within the framework of psychotherapy works to heal deep emotional wounds that have been holding athletes and high performers back. Through this therapy process, clients begin to identify the insights, confidence, and strategies to transform your life and open doors to new experiences. Inner Flow Counseling works to promote deeper healing and teaches clients to soothe the nervous system and unlock performance blocks.
Athletes, first responders, and high performers often develop a disconnect with the mind-body connection as a protective response to little “t” and big “T” trauma, deepening roots of unresolved traumas in the body and mind, leading to performance barriers and blocks that limit peak performance, cause yips, and limit athletic recovery. This automatic protect response may lead to feeling unfulfilled or stuck or disconnected from higher healing potential.
Inner Flow Counseling empowers athletes, first responders, helping professionals, and high performers to manage performance blocks, transition through their athletic careers at the highest level and discover tools to manage nervous system blocks and support fluid athletic performance. This tailored psychotherapy and training approach helps clients discover purpose, build confidence, overcome obstacles, and reinvent their lives in a fulfilling new direction.
More than Sports Psychology.
Inner Flow Counseling LLC addresses the whole-person to promote deep nervous system healing. This allows deeper processing to release automatic stress responses related to the injury itself, surgery, recovery, and back to sport transitions. When our bodies experience a trauma such as an injury or surgery, our nervous system becomes activated to protect. It remembers the sights, sounds, body positions, etc. of the traumatic event to signal STOP messages to help us avoid future traumas. While well-meaning, this can prevent us from trusting our rehab process on a subconscious level. Often, we are not even aware of this occurrence. Have you ever felt like, “I know I am strong enough…I have put in the work…or why won’t my body do what my mind wants it to do?” These are examples of subconscious STOP messages in the nervous system. These blocks served us in the moment, requiring muscle locks in the body to protect the injured area, yet on your journey of recovery, you are getting stronger and no longer require this full-protection mode. These blocks often prevent full emotional and physical potential. Too often, we start to believe these limits and chalk it up to, “I’ll never be the same after this injury.” While, every rehabilitation journey is unique, this may be a limiting belief system existing in the conscious and the subconscious mind.
Private-Pay
I believe in focusing on the interests and needs of the person without being led by insurance companies. I provide private-pay services. This allows me to meet clients where they are to provide meaningful and intensive therapy options. This approach eliminates the requirement of sharing your personal mental health information with insurance companies.