I don't work from a single model, because people aren't one-dimensional. What you bring to a session — an anxiety that won't ease, a pattern that keeps repeating, a grief that can't find its way out — rarely fits whole into a single technique. So I integrate several approaches, and I let the rhythm of your experience, rather than a fixed method, decide where to begin.
What follows is a flyover of the ones I use most. From each, you can pull the thread: at the end of every section you'll find the full article, where I tell its history, how it works, and how I live it in session.
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Peter Levine developed it by noticing something simple and unsettling: animals in the wild live exposed to death and yet don't accumulate trauma. An impala that escapes a cheetah shakes, trembles, and discharges the energy it mobilized to survive. We tend to interrupt that discharge — and that energy stays waiting in the nervous system.
Somatic Experiencing works with the nervous system to complete, little by little and without overwhelm, that half-finished cycle. We don't relive the trauma: we touch its edges through titration and pendulation, until the system finds where to release what it had been carrying. You aren't broken — you're interrupted.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Richard Schwartz noticed that inside, we function like a family of parts: one that demands and controls, another that flees or distracts, another that carries the oldest wound. Internal Family Systems works with those voices without silencing any of them, recognizing that each one — even the most uncomfortable — tried to protect you at some point.
Beneath all those parts there is a Self that can observe with calm and without judgment. The work installs nothing new: it returns that core to its place of leadership. Here, transformation happens not through elimination, but through integration.
Tapping (EFT)
The Emotional Freedom Technique combines stimulating acupuncture points with work on the memory that generates distress. It sounds strange said out loud — tapping points on your face and chest while you name what you feel — and yet what happens in the nervous system is precise and, often, surprisingly fast.
By tapping those points while the memory is active, we send the nervous system a signal of safety: "you're here, you're okay, there's no danger now." With repetition, the memory loses its charge. It doesn't disappear — but it stops hijacking you. And it's a tool you can learn to use on your own between sessions.
Core Energetics
An heir to Reich, Lowen, and John Pierrakos, Core Energetics understands that defenses aren't only mental: they settle into the muscle, the posture, the breath. It works with movement, voice, and grounding to reach deep layers of character, with an evolutionary and transpersonal lens.
I'm part of the teaching faculty at Instituto Córpore. This approach taught me that sensation, emotion, thought, intention, and action are facets of a single experience — and that healing isn't repairing something broken, but coming back to inhabit yourself.
The thread that ties them together
If these four approaches share anything, it's one conviction: the body is almost always the most honest way in. That's why, more than loose techniques, they belong to a single field — that of body-based therapy — and they're oriented by a single clinical framework: Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory, which helps me understand why the body responds the way it does and how to create the conditions of safety that make the work possible.
These four approaches are the somatic foundation of my individual work. When I work with couples and families, the framework is different and complementary: systemic — attentive to relationships rather than to the person alone — in which I hold a master's degree from Instituto Crisol, where I'm now pursuing a specialization in couples therapy.
How I approach what brings you to therapy and the goals we set: I propose it according to how you arrive — how available your bodily awareness is, and the way you see the problem and move through the world — and the process recalibrates as we go, always following the rhythm of your experience. It isn't chosen by chance, nor is it a fixed menu. If you'd like to see how all of this translates into practice, you can read what to expect from therapy or what a first session is like.