What an Hour Holds
An hour of inner work with me moves between worlds. One week we are with the part of you that has guarded a door since you were nine. The next we are with a grief that came down your family line, or with an energy that hooked into you somewhere along the way and was never yours to carry. Some sessions belong to the body and some to ritual, and some call for a practical plan to navigate the vicissitudes of everyday life. Most people would need a therapist, a ritualist, a spiritual teacher and a bodyworker to cover that ground, each with a separate fee and none of them speaking to the others. Here it happens under one roof, with one person who remembers the whole story.
The Years Behind the Hour
I have worked with Internal Family Systems for over twenty-five years and have walked a spiritual path for more than forty. I trained as a somatic psychotherapist, and I have taught other practitioners how to do this work. The practice has grown wide as well as long. I have long studied the rites that carry a person over a threshold, and I bring an elder’s eyes to the work. Energetics and animism have taught me what is alive in the unseen realms, and nondual somatic meditation has shown me what lives beneath the thinking mind. Ritual and the expressive arts give a passage its shape. All of it comes into the room with you. I have walked my own hard ground, too. When you pay for an hour with me, you pay for those decades as much as for the sixty minutes: for knowing where the trail forks, what is worth following, and when to let a thing rest.
The hour is the part you can see. The practices I give you for the days in between belong to the fee as well, since the work keeps moving long after we hang up. I also keep my practice small, so the person on my calendar has all of me.
The Rate
My fee for inner work is $500 an hour.
If That Rate Does Not Fit
I know $500 an hour is more than many people can carry, and I do not want money to be the gate that keeps you from this work. If that rate would strain your life, you are welcome to choose a rate anywhere from $300 to $500. Tell me what feels sustainable, and we will find the number together in an honest conversation. If your means are generous, I ask that you choose the full rate, because it is what makes room for the people who cannot. I trust you to know where you stand.
Other Doors
My Trusted Colleagues each set their own rates and ways of working, and one of their structures may suit your life better than mine does. All of them have studied with me and have been my consultees, and I trust their work. Each also brings their own specialties and gifts. You can meet them on the Trusted Colleagues page.
If Life Moves
Every client I work with shares the same agreement about time. Cancel or move a session with at least 48 hours’ notice and we will find another time. With less notice, that session is forfeited. When I can move a late cancellation, I will, though I am not always able to. Unforeseen emergencies are the exception, and I will meet them with understanding.
Begin the Conversation
Bring whatever has been calling you here, and we will see together whether this is the right road. Contact me to set up a free phone consultation.