modalities (in addition to somatic psychotherapies)

As a psychotherapist, beyond my orientation as a body-centered psychotherapist, I also draw from the following modalities, which I feel are important to mention here: 

• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Spiral Dynamics
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Gestalt Therapy 
• Dynamic Attachment Repatterining experience (DARe) by Diane Poole Heller

As a trauma-informed therapist, I am also rooted in the work of ~ 

• Judith Herman
• Joan Shapiro and Margaret Grant
• Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing
• Pat Ogden and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

And from the large area of Neuroscience ~

• Dan Siegel and Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Stephen Porges and Polyvagal Theory 

And, lastly ~ 

• Existential Psychology (Yalom, Frankl, Bugental, Van Deurzen)
• Grief Counseling (Kubler-Ross)

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