services

All counseling services are offered to individuals 18 years and older.

Exercise and Movement Counseling

Exercise and Movement Counseling focuses specifically on your relationship with physical activity and seeks to help you craft a more authentic and fulfilling way of relating with it. This service is meant to to help you identify and confront aspects of your relationship with movement, building upon the parts that work well and interrupting/strengthening the areas that need something different.

Exercise and Movement Counseling may include movement-based sessions, during which we engage in physical activity together as part of your therapeutic work. You may choose to participate in a combination of talk- and movement-based sessions or choose to engage in talk-based sessions only.

talk-based sessions

  • Function similarly to general talk-based therapy, but with specific focus on relationship with physical activity, past and present

  • Provide therapeutic education about intuitive movement

  • May explore the following: past movement experiences, current patterns and goals, areas of compulsivity and/or avoidance, beliefs about movement, identity and movement, preparation and/or debrief of movement-based sessions

  • 50-55 minutes in length

Movement-based sessions

  • Take an experiential approach; may involve physical activity for a small or large portion of the session (all activities are planned together prior to each session)

  • Offer support and in-the-moment processing for in vivo exposures, new movement experiences

  • Typically 50-55 minutes in length (longer sessions may be scheduled occasionally to accommodate specific activities)

  • Require ongoing participation in talk-based sessions

  • Require assessment by a medical provider prior to scheduling

Exercise and Movement Counseling services are offered either in conjunction with Individual Counseling or as a standalone service. Those who receive this support as a standalone service must do so as an adjunct to individual counseling with another provider. When clients receive support from other mental health care provider(s), it is most effective when the other provider(s) are aware and supportive of the client’s engagement in Exercise and Movement Counseling. I am happy to coordinate care with other providers upon the completion of a Release of Information form.