Vital Contact Gestalt Services

I help people heal from relational wounds so that they can fully step into their lives. I am a process-focused Gestalt Professional whose work focuses on supporting you to understand what you are doing and how you are doing it, via heightening awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By asking deeper questions, working with the body, and/or experimenting with different choices we can learn more about the impacts of the habitual ways you tend to respond to your life... while exploring what you need in order to move forward. I have a special interest in working with folks who are seeking to deepen their understanding of themselves and their relationships. I show up authentically as myself - with curiosity, warmth, humor, and a mixture of challenge and support - in hopes of fostering your growing capacity towards greater health for you and your relationships. Many of my clients are people who have done a certain degree of their own "inner work", yet their old patterns still exist. Some have tried going to therapy and still feel stuck. They long for relationships that feel secure, for deeper connection to self, and for a way through the complexity of past wounds. Together we explore deeper into awareness, to learn what is actually possible. My approach integrates all I've learned from trainings in Gestalt coaching, Gestalt therapy, somatic awareness, and years of practice, research, study, professional supervision, and real-life experience... helping people shift from stuck patterns into embodied presence and relational wholeness. My clients describe me as authentic, warm, passionate, curious, and empathetic. I meet people right where they are, from right where I am. I partner with each person in a collaborative way that addresses their unique needs, and we start working with those needs in our very first meeting. You don't need fixing. You need space to listen to yourself deeply, accompanied by someone who can help you integrate your experiences into real, lasting change. If you are interested in the possibility of working together, please click "Request Appointment" to set up a (free) 25-minute consult with me (discovery call). This will give us a chance to get clear about what you are looking for, for you to learn more about Gestalt integrative coaching, and to see if I'm the right person to support you. ----- My Education & Advanced Trainings: * Gestalt therapy training (Gestalt Therapy Center of Madison, 2025 - ongoing) * Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, 2024-25) * Gestalt therapy annual residential postgraduate training (GATLA, 2024 - ongoing) * Gestalt therapy postgraduate training (GATLA, Gestalt Associates Training of Los Angeles: Seattle & LA Programs, 2019 - ongoing) * 200h YTT (Jason Crandell Yoga Method, 2023) * Advancing Clinical Education in Sexuality certification (AASECT, 2021) * Nonviolent Communication (various trainings, 2020-23) * Fear Free Certified Veterinarian (FearFree, 2020) * Student & Apprentice (School of Movement Medicine, 2018-23) * Acupuncture certification (Chi University, 2009) * Herbal Medicine certification (Chi University, 2010) * Food Therapy certification (Chi University, 2011) * DVM (University of Florida, 2007) * BS (University of Central Florida, 2002)