As a chiropractor/homeopath, I am grateful to feel confident that when I refer patients to Jody they will be held with gentleness and compassion.

Jody is an incredibly kind and attentive listener, not only to what I express verbally but to
the feelings underneath, helping me get in touch with them.  She has guided me back to
my essential self and is helping me to move forward with self-compassion.  

On my first session with Jody I remember thinking, "This is way too woo woo for me." But after it was done I felt more calm and at peace. Jody has taught me to connect with myself in a way I could have never dreamed of before. Today I am able to live a joyful life and find calm within when pain shows up.

Through my work with Jody, I have learned a lot about myself. Since working together,
and even after, I have been able to connect to my true self, understanding my deeper
emotions, how they show up in my body, and how I can begin to heal.

I have been seeing Jody over the past year and more...through some very deep work. She knows a great deal and has helped me to process things in my life that have unknowingly impacted me. She has guided me through rough times, teaching me how to see the truth in them and focusing on what I have control over. Her insight is so very valuable. Her way of working feels safe, compassionate and makes so much sense. I understand what needs healing now and so much of it is my perception, my attitude and my choice. I am so grateful for all she's taught me. 

Jody came highly recommended from a friend and I am most grateful! I was feeling really stuck in life with childhood trauma and anxiety that I couldn't move forward to learn how to heal. I knew my feelings were not in a healthy state. I reached out to other therapists, but Jody was the one I connected with most. She has a way of making you feel that you are not alone and gives you tools on how to work on issues and be able to move forward. When anxiety comes up for me, I now have the tools to work through it. It has been life changing working with Jody and I highly recommend her.

I treasure the work I was able to do with Jody. I came to Jody at the beginning of the pandemic when things couldn't have felt worse. Jody provided a safe space to feel grounded, open up to myself, and discover within what parts needed healing. Her work with AEDP provided a framework for me to get out of the anxiety in my mind and practice experiencing my emotions in my body. Jody provided a gentle companionship on the beginning of my journey to practicing self compassion. We developed tools that I still use to heal, find peace and not be carried away by anxiety. During my year with Jody I woke up to my true self and for that I am so grateful.

Traditional therapy helped me better understand myself and it provided a coherent narrative of my life experiences. With all my understanding I was still having a hard time managing and regulating my emotions. There was almost a disconnect between my understanding and my feelings. I reached out to Jody because I saw on her website the term Body-Mind work, which I felt it was the missing link in my healing journey. I have only been working with Jody for 3 months and I can already feel the deep inner work that we are doing. Jody is compassionate, caring, and she helps me hold the painful emotions which makes it easier to tolerate. I’m looking forward to continuing this journey.

I am profoundly grateful for the treatment and care I received from Jody. The AEDP protocol and Jody's compassionate and firm approach to our sessions gave me the space and support I needed to process the intense and entrenched grief I was experiencing in a way that allowed me to open to more healing from early childhood trauma. Along the way I always felt safe and inspired to examine all of my emotions, blocks and learned defenses. I also felt empowered to keep opening up little by little and this allowing process has opened me up to feeling creativity, joy and focus again in my day-to-day life. I tell anyone who asks me about my experience that the process is very simple yet demanding and as long as you are open to it, it can change your life for the better.  

I was looking to reduce my anxiety, feel more embodied and generally feel more comfortable in my own skin. I was experiencing insecurity, mistrust, overthinking, people pleasing and social anxiety related to past trauma. I felt stuck, a desire to take the path of least resistance and mistrust in novel relationships. Since working with Jody, I am able to show up and become closer to my confident, genuine, embodied self. I feel more. I watch movies and art with a different lens. I allow myself to be moved by life itself. I have more acceptance for my past, my family and I can explain my story with coherence and compassion. My light shines brighter. Jody is a loving soul. She is a true other. Her presence is grounding and her containment creates feelings of safety. She is not afraid to (metaphorically) hold your hand down the roughest, most darkest terrains. This is what I wish for/look for in all my closest relationships.

I am a 71 year old female and I didn’t expect to find someone as kind, insightful and supportive as Jody at this stage of my life. I have done a lot of therapy, but never achieved the results I am feeling now, in less than one year. Reaching out for help can be challenging and frightening!  Jody made me feel safe and not alone with her process of dealing with some pretty big traumas and disappointments in my life…she has given me so many tools to utilize when things get out of balance. She has guided me through past experiences in my life that needed to be re-visited so that they could then be less impactful in my everyday life. Thanks to her, I now believe I am OK and that I survived the traumas and disappointments that have happened in my life. I know now that I can move on with a much lighter heart. I truly believe that the change in me has rippled out to my family and friends. She taught me to see that I have the power. Through Jody's incredible insight and kindness my life has changed for the better.

I was laid off from my job after 35 years and knew I was going to need support. I was always looking for a therapist that concentrated on growth and moving through issues instead of just talking about them and thinking that was enough. I was given the gift of being introduced to Jody. This therapy isn't just talking about your issues. This therapy is a way of life with a tool kit to walk through it with. Jody gets down to the core issue quickly and easily and then rips it out from the root. It is truly amazing how when you do that, the next day you feel completely transformed. It affects how you interact with yourself and others in every situation. Sometimes it isn't easy dealing with issues in a very honest way but once you get there, it is well worth every bit of effort. From the first consultation where Jody explained how she worked, I knew that I was dealing with the right person. I have had a few therapists over the years and Jody is definitely the most impressive.

When I decided to work with Jody, I was searching for someone who would help me deal with the stresses I had with my family dynamics - especially an older son in trauma. I was definitely overwhelmed with my work and family pressures. I chose Jody because she was gracious and gentle in the initial interview and she took medicare, which is my tribe. Her past history as a community organizer and her joy in working with older clients impressed me. Jody has helped me navigate a world that as an empath I take on too much from my patients, my family and my friends. She has shown me how to get in touch with my emotions and look at them both now and where they were buried in the past and release them. I am more aware now of how I deal with emotional traumas and presently I try to express them in a more healthy pathway. Jody acts as a witness to your emotions, keeps you on a path of discovery and supports you in your quest to understand and release your past and present emotions and traumas.

I highly recommend Jody to anyone looking to heal from trauma. I feel safe with Jody, which is a big deal, given how hard it is for me to trust anyone because of my childhood trauma. I am on high alert for any nuances of judgementalness, and she has none. Instead, she radiates love and acceptance, and is able to hold whatever emotions come up in me. Jody has helped me reconnect with my core self, which is whole and resourced. I had glimpses of my core self before, as I've worked hard and long in therapy to heal myself. The deeply embedded trauma reactions of fight, flight, freeze or shut down would take over often when I interacted with others, and I felt a deep loneliness and feeling separate no matter how hard I tried to be authentic. Jody's loving presence and mastery has helped me disentangle from my nervous system getting hijacked by these trauma responses, and I am now starting to discover who I am without the trauma. I am starting to be able to relate to myself with kindness and care, after a lifetime of being harsh to myself to the point of cruelty, and able to at last relate more authentically to others. This has been my lifelong dream. I am deeply grateful to Jody.

In my experience working with Jody as my psychotherapist, her main focus has been helping me learn to regulate my nervous system which we have the experience of doing in each session as we co-regulate simply by just meeting in the session together, which has a calming effect and allows me to practice the feeling state of being regulated. This is the main focus, rather than the many details of the stories of my life and experience, (which she also allows me to tell as needed). From our work together I feel empowered to monitor and regulate my own nervous system, using it as a barometer of my emotional well-being from one moment to the next. With Jody's help, I've learned to flex with the ups and downs of life, a normal, healthy process, and to bring myself back to balance as needed with the natural ebb and flow of life.  

Jody is a kind, caring, generous, and compassionate clinician and as a result of our work together she has helped me learn to internalize those attitudes which has resulted in less stress and greater levels of self-kindness, self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and self-acceptance. I am a grateful client who deeply appreciates our work together. Thank you, Jody!