“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers  within yourself that you have built against it.” ―Rumi

 

Meet Megan

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Megan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and board approved MFT supervisor. She is a certified NARM™ Master Therapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) with specialized training in complex trauma.

Megan is most interested in what Carl Jung calls individuation, or wholeness: “Individuation means becoming an “individual,” and, in so far as “individuality” embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self. We could therefore translate individuation as “coming to selfhood” or “self-realization.” Carl Jung, The Collected Works of CG Jung, Vol 7 

Using her training in various somatic models, as well as her current study of depth psychology, Megan ultimately hopes to support people towards this greater sense of aliveness and self-realization.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver

Megan is interested in transformative work, to support each of us to tap into our life energy for more connection and aliveness. This work is often spurred by some kind of crisis – be that a loss, relationship rupture or challenge, physical health problems, a spiritual crossroads, or symptoms that are not able to be controlled or managed. The experience serves as some kind of call for a search of what we are really longing for, or most want for ourselves.

Megan works from an understanding that there are developmental life themes and resources that are essential to our capacity for self-regulation and an ability to be present. To the degree that those core needs/themes are met, we experience regulation and a sense of connection to ourselves and others. To the degree that life themes/needs are not met, we develop survival strategies to manage the dysregulation and disconnection.

Megan’s work utilizes somatic mindfulness (a practice to observe cognitive, emotional and physiological patterns and experiences) and inquiry to explore what patterns get in the way of being present to ourselves and others at a given moment and in our life. Using the organizing principals of one’s survival pattern/s, Megan brings more consciousness and awareness to these behaviors. She supports clients to use a dual awareness that is anchored in the present moment to explore patterns that began in the past, while not falling into the trap of making the past more important than the present.