Hello, I’m Rebecca.
I’m so glad you’re here.

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I specialize in trauma recovery and relational health, integrating somatic and relational modalities to help you transform stuck patterns at their roots. Through experiential, brain-based work, we’ll move towards deeper integration. Supporting your felt-sense shifts that open new connections beyond intellect alone.

Connectfulness® is a listening partnership within your system. It gently undoes aloneness, restores internal trust, and helps you to discern what comes next.

In additional to therapy, I offer relationship intensives, workshops, & practitioner consultation, all grounded in an embodied, experiential approach. I occasionally open space for new therapy clients.

INTEGRATIVE METHODS & MODALITIES

My work draws from a blend of powerful experiential modalities for relational healing and trauma resolution to help you access and trust your innate healing process so you bring the most authentic version of your Self into relationship with skill and nuance.

  • STAIR is an integrative methodology that offers a framework to support power-with collaborative relationships and brain wise healing. The STAIR Method was developed by Juliane Taylor Shore and is based in the science of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB). STAIR supports folks in growing self trust and listening more deeply to the wisdom of their experiences with more nuance. STAIR is an acronym for Self-Trust And Integrated Resilience. I’m am among the first cohort certified in the STAIR Method and directly mentored by Jules.

    I’m a certified STAIR Method therapist and an approved Deliberate Practice Guide for Level 3 training and Certification Track Phase 1 Deliberate Practice Groups.

  • SE transforms emotional and early developmental attachment trauma through witnessing where you may be “stuck” in fight, flight or freeze responses and provides tools to help you resolve these fixated states. SE is a body-oriented therapeutic model for resolving symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies.

    I’m a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Training Assistant with Somatic Experiencing International. I’m an approved provider of Personal Sessions to SEI students in the beginning and intermediate years.

  • IFS conceives every human being as a system of protected and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. IFS helps folks heal via a non-pathologizing stance, believing the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.

    IFIO is a model of relationship therapy that draws primarily from the IFS model of psychotherapy. It is an experiential model born out of a desire to carry the concepts of IFS into a relational setting and to use the intimate relationship itself as a vehicle for growth and healing for both the individual and between partners.

    I am a level 2 IFS therapist, trained in both IFS and IFIO.

  • DBR is a neuroscientifically guided intervention that aims to slowly turn toward and process traumatic and shock experiences by working with brainstem-level neurophysiological sequences that occurred when the deep brain had been alerted to a threat or an attachment disruption.

    I’m Level 2 trained in DBR and in monthly consultation with Dr. Jessica Christie-Sands.

  • DARTT is process initially developed by Pia Mellody and expanded on by the Healing Our Core Issue Institute (HOCII) that maps of your developmental history, helps you to reparent your historical selves, and stand in your truth. It offers an experiential model of working with, and healing, family of origin and trauma issues.

    I completed HOCII’s 2 year training program and am certified in DARTT.

  • RLT is an approach that helps couples move back into connection, work through infidelity and trust issues, increase intimacy, improve communication, and deepen relational integrity. At it’s core, RLT strives to help people move out of power over/under relational dynamics, make powerful insights, sustain lasting change, and integrate healthy new relational skills moment by moment in daily life.

    I’m a certified Relational Life Therapist, Facilitator and Bootcamp Leader.

SUPPORTING GENERATIONAL WELLNESS

For over two decades, I’ve been guiding people in untangling echoes of legacy, honoring the wisdom of protective systems, and cultivating relational practices. These relational practices support generational wellness and sit at the center of my experiential approach to relational trauma healing, which I call Connectfulness®.

Connectfulness® is a practice, akin to meditation, that asks you to return to connection again and again. Returning to connection with what or whom, though? That question holds the generative complexity that weaves this soul-work. Where does connection begin? There is no single answer. It’s filled with complexity and polarization, grief and growth, exploration and not knowing, discovery and coherence.

As best we can, we practice withnessing: being with and witnessing. We withness the places we get stuck, not as what’s wrong, but as what is emerging and seeking tending, relationship and connection. These tendrils of stuckness can open portals for healing that move through time, lineage, and legacy.

This is what I bring into whatever way we work together: therapy, intensives, consulting and teaching spaces. A relational way of deepening self-trust and re-rooting your felt sense of Connectfulness®.

Some other tidbits you might like to know about me: I’m a 50-something neurospicy, cis woman shaped by a diasporic lineage. I live and work in New York’s Hudson Valley, on the ancestral land of the Lenape people, with my partner, our teens, and a handful of four-legged mischief makers. I am nerdy, quirky and quietly revolutionary. Drawn to imagination, world-building, and slow, unfolding processes—experimenting with sourdough, listening to audiobooks, singing in rounds, and wandering walks. My work is grounded in listening for hidden patterns of justice and possibility, and a deep commitment to shared power.

I’d be honored to walk with you on this journey.

WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

  • Experiential therapy for individuals, partners, or relational systems. I work at the intersection of trauma recovery and relational health, using somatic and relational approaches to guide felt-sense shifts and lasting transformation.

    I offer psychotherapy virtually in NY, MA, CO, and FL, and in-person in New Paltz, NY. I occasionally open space for new therapy clients and do not maintain a waitlist when fully booked. If you feel ready to begin this work together, you can book a brief intro call or send me a message using the buttons below—whichever feels right for you.

  • Seven long-form sessions (20 hours total) create an intentional space for immersive relational healing. Your commitment of time and energy becomes the ground for deep, integrative work.

    Rooted in relational trauma repair and brain-informed, experiential practice, these intensives support individuals, partners, and relational systems ready to transform persistent patterns and reconnect with greater clarity and sustainability.

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  • Experiential workshops that weave somatic, relational, and trauma-informed practices with brain-savvy insights. These workshops support reflection, exploration, and the reshaping of how you relate to yourself and others.

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  • If you’re longing to deepen your therapeutic presence, notice what gets stirred in the room, and stay connected to your own embodied wisdom, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re navigating stuck points, integrating trauma-informed approaches, or tending to the parts of yourself that show up alongside your clients, we’ll create a collaborative space where all of you is welcome.

    I work best with practitioners who are curious about deepening clinical integrity, integrating relational and somatic trauma healing, weaving neurobiology into their practice, embodying shared-power-with approaches, and exploring experiential pathways for growth and connection.

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Ready to Begin? Have Questions?

If you don’t see what you’re curious about, or if you are ready to begin this work, I am glad to help you explore what might fit for you. Use the buttons below to explore my FAQ page, book a brief intro call, or send me a message - whatever feels right.