Grounded, and only if you want it
This is the part of my practice people most often ask about before they book. So here is a straight answer, up front, rather than buried on a page you have to go looking for.
Inside the clinical work, not instead of it
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist [LMFT #00000] with somatic training in [modality]. That is the frame everything in my practice happens inside — assessment, treatment planning, referral, all of it.
Energy work is one more way of paying attention to what a body is doing. When someone says their chest has been tight for six months and nothing medical explains it, I am interested in that. Calling it energy is a name for something people report, not a claim about what is physically true, and not a substitute for a doctor looking at it.
It also never runs ahead of you. If it is not your thing, we do the work without it and you will not lose anything — the somatic and clinical work stands entirely on its own. Nothing here asks you to believe anything in particular, and nothing here replaces medical care.
awaiting asset
Seven places worth asking about
People know this system by a lot of names. I use plain ones, because the label matters far less than whether the question lands when I ask it.
These are not levels to unlock or things to fix in order. They are prompts — a way of noticing which part of you has gone quiet.
- GroundSafety, belonging, having somewhere to stand. Where we usually start when someone arrives overwhelmed.
- FlowFeeling, appetite, creativity, sexuality. Often the first thing shut down after something frightening.
- WillAgency and self-trust. Where the sense of “I cannot” tends to sit even when you clearly can.
- HeartConnection, grief and love. What opens last, and what most people are actually here for.
- VoiceSaying the thing. Closely tied to the throat and jaw on the body map.
- InsightPerspective. Being able to see your own life rather than being inside it.
- BeyondMeaning, and the sense of being part of something larger than the day you are having.
[Sharon to confirm the naming — whether she uses these plain names, the Sanskrit ones, or her own]
What it actually looks like
Less than people picture. Mostly it is attention, breath and questions.
We agree first
Nothing gets introduced without me explaining it and you saying yes. You can decline any part of it in any session, including one where you said yes the week before.
We stay with what is there
Usually this means slowing right down at one place in the body, using breath and attention, and describing what changes. [Sharon to add what she actually does here]
We land before you leave
Every session ends with getting you back in the room and steady enough to drive home. That is not optional and it is not rushed.
If this part is not for you
Say so on the consultation call, or in session, or after six months of doing it. It changes nothing about how I work with you otherwise, and it is a completely normal thing to want. Plenty of my clients never touch this side of the practice.
Ask me about it directly
The free consultation is the right place for the questions you would feel awkward asking later. Including this one.