As people, we all do better and feel better when our body sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are integrated in ways that make life easier rather than more difficult. This involves the ability to know what we are feeling, to regulate stress, manage intense emotions, and engage in shared experiences that contribute to the development of self-awareness, self-leadership, positive self-regard and social connection.

 

We understand the ways in which child maltreatment, life adversity and mental-emotional-developmental challenges can diminish self-regulation, limit our capacity to co-regulate internal states with others, and inhibit our ability to transition adaptively between both mental and emotional states. These challenges often require specialized approaches and supports including those that are developmentally attuned, person-centered and trauma-informed. We've specialized in these approaches for over two decades across a wide range of settings.