The OPEN Method

  • Step One: Observe

    We’ll begin exactly where you are. Together, we’ll take a step back and observe what’s happening in your life mentally, emotionally, and physically. In this first step, we have no agenda to fix, solve, judge, or analyze. We’re focused on opening the door to self-discovery by slowing down and getting curious.

    Tools we’ll use:

    Calming breathwork practices

    Awareness practice: getting to know your system

    Life narrative practices


  • Step Two: Process

    After we’ve gotten a sense of what’s happening for you in your life mentally, emotionally, and physically, we go deeper with targeted awareness practices. These are one-on-one practices in which I’ll guide you on an inward journey to the protective parts of you that defend, perform, numb, avoid, distract, and resist. I have no agenda but to help you meet each protective part inside of you and compassionately listen to and see what they want you to know.

    Tools we’ll use:

    Awareness practice: directed insight

    Awareness practice: unburdening

  • Step Three: Express

    After you have allowed all of the protective parts and old emotional wounds in you to be seen, heard, and unburdened, I’ll guide you in personalized somatic (body-based) practices that express what these parts have been carrying. All the tools we’ll use in this step will be determined by your inner wisdom.

    Tools we’ll use as needed:

    Energetic breathwork

    Stretching and shaking

    Verbalization and crying

  • Step Four: Nurture

    Finally, you will learn how to contact and relax back into the flow, energy, and wisdom of your True Self. I will lead you in a variety of awareness practices that will allow you to identify the embodied sense of being in your True Self as well as opening to messages from your True Self. In this step, I will also share practices for gaining a systems-level overview of how your True Self is working in relation to your protective parts.

    Tools we’ll use:

    Awareness practice: heart-based relaxation

    Awareness practice: the mountain

    Awareness practice: your treasure

The Results

  • Your Authenticity

    Our emotional processing practices will allow you to get in touch with your true, authentic self, which will help you feel grounded in your truth.

  • Life Clarity

    Each of our sessions together will connect you more deeply with your inner wisdom, giving you clarity on longstanding, frustrating problems in your life. You will discover that you have all the answers you need inside.

  • Thriving Relationships

    As you become more accepting and open to all that is inside, you will become more accepting and open to everyone in your life. You’ll find spontaneous moments of love and caring simply emerge.

  • Ease & Flow

    The further you explore your emotional system, the more room you will feel inside. As more space opens up inside, you will begin to breathe, move, and rest with ease.

  • Energy & Creativity

    You will discover that all of the energy and creativity you need in your life is already inside of you. It’s just covered and constricted by parts of you that are protective and defensive. Together, we’ll let these parts relax and your natural energy flow.

  • Meaning & Purpose

    As you move deeper into emotional processing, you will find that your life is bursting with meaning; you just haven’t felt it fully because you haven’t taken the risk of connecting fully with your True Self or your loved ones. Emotional processing helps you take that risk.

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