Private guided sessions are an intimate, one-on-one experience of the reflective writing process.

Reflective writing provides useful tools to help manage depression and anxiety. The practice of reflective writing is also a powerful support in moving through grief and trauma, and huge life transitions like postpartum, relationship challenges, divorce, and new career paths.

With each new client, I begin with a 30 minute consultation to get to know them and discuss where they want to focus their writing. This is an opportunity for them to share whatever is happening in their lives, and where they would like help processing or becoming un-stuck. I also try to get a sense of their relationship to writing, and whether they've journaled in the past.

Then, I create an hour-long session that consists of writing prompts unique to each client. These prompts are gentle nudges to dig deeper, to articulate emotion and experience, and to allow patterns to emerge. I incorporate my knowledge of CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) to craft prompts that will challenge the truths my clients are holding on to. 

By articulating and examining each client's core personal values, we investigate the ways in which they live within alignment, and the places where they can edit and adjust in order to more closely align.

I also encourage sharing. We explore what comes forth, not by reading what the client has written, but by discussing the emerging themes, ideas, thought-patterns and realizations that the writing generates. This discovery process challenges beliefs, invites a shift in perspective, and builds deep connections between present emotion and past experience.

My commitment is to build a safe container in which my clients feel held and supported and to create mindful interaction.  Developing safe space and a meaningful connection takes precedence over all else.

Reflective writing is powerful regardless of your writing experience or your writing skill. The focus is never on crafting  'clever writing' but on channeling truth, and I am there to guide you every step of the way.

Explore the healing benefits of reflective writing with intimate couples sessions.

These coaching sessions are tailored to examine specific areas of your relationship, and each one hour session builds on the next. Couples follow custom writing prompts that focus on the strength and beauty of their relationship and then read their discoveries to one another with Imago-based intentional communication tools. 

The prompts in my couples reflective writing sessions are inspired by techniques from EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy, ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), The Gottman Method and Imago Therapy.

Couples Reflective Writing can help with:

• Improving communication 

• Identifying core relationship values

• Articulating and understanding relationship issues

• Deepening empathy

• Creating a healthy sexual connection

• Diminishing criticism

• Creating healthy boundaries

• Addressing codependency

• Rebuilding trust

Your first session includes a complimentary half hour consultation to discuss anything you’d like to explore together through reflective writing.

Couples reflective writing is currently available online via Zoom. I can accommodate evening hours when necessary to allow bedtime for little ones.