1:1 Self-Compassion Sessions

Not therapy, but co-regulation. Meeting you with gentle compassion and holding space for you to do the same for yourself. To where you can learn to do it on your own more regularly.

This is what I needed when I was learning to be a good mom to myself. That emotional presence and attunement. I didn’t always need solutions and guidance, or for someone to tell me what to do with my life. I needed to be truly seen, understood and validated. I needed compassion, and someone who could help me return back to love. Back home to my true Self. And then, solutions and guidance would come with much more ease.

I can now parent myself with love and compassion.

But it didn’t come naturally to me. Self-compassion was like a foreign language I had to learn. I thought it sounded nice, and I admired the people who spoke it. But I didn’t know how. When I first tried, it felt weird and awkward. But that’s what it’s like when you’re learning a new way to speak to yourself. A new way to be.

I’ve always been highly sensitive and my inner world used to completely overwhelm me. My emotions, my thoughts and reactions.. they felt so intense. My inner critic was loud and sometimes relentlessly cruel. I felt like there was something wrong with me that other people didn’t have wrong with them.

What helped me most was learning the value of self-compassion and then having someone model it for me. Someone who could hold space gently and without judgment. Who could listen to what was going on for me internally, be with me in that ache, validate me and treat me with genuine care. My body began to relax and understand that there wasn’t anything wrong with me after all, and that my feelings actually always made sense.

Who are these sessions for?

-You’re going through something and feel alone in navigating it
-You’re learning to be more kind to yourself, but it’s hard
-You feel overwhelmed by your feelings and want to learn how to metabolize them in an empowered way
-You feel victimized by your own sensitivity and emotional reactions. Even scared of yourself at times, like “why am I like this?”
-You tend to carry it all yourself and want a safe space to soften
-You’re not sure what you need exactly, but you know being hard on yourself is NOT helping

This is a space for the part of you that’s exhausted from trying to do it all yourself. A place to be seen, validated and supported - exactly as you are. I’m here to hold compassionate space so on a deeper level, your nervous system can understand the type of loving response you’ve always deserved. And you can then begin to practice parenting yourself like this, to a point where it comes more and more naturally for you. To where self-compassion is no longer a foreign concept but a routine act of coming home to yourself.