About

About ME

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Hi, I’m Brittany (she/her), a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Arizona and California. I offer individual therapy for adults – in-person in Phoenix and online across both states.

I specialize in approaches that honor the mind-body connection, including relational, holistic, emotion-focused and somatic therapy. My work is especially supportive for adults seeking to reconnect with themselves and others, heal past wounds, and move toward a more authentic life.

Throughout my journey as a therapist, I’ve been drawn to approaches that honor the body and emotions as wise, powerful sources of information – not things to override or manage. Part of this comes from my own upbringing in environments that taught me to suppress emotions and feel ashamed of my body and its needs. One of these environments was high-control religion, which shaped my passion for supporting people who have experienced religious and spiritual abuse. 

I aim to practice therapy in a way that honors your autonomy, cultural identity, and inherent right to a compassionate, empowered relationship with your body.

One of my greatest joys is learning and growing, both professionally and personally. I see this as essential to being a therapist. My nervous system comes into the therapy room with me, and I want to continually show up as my most aware and present self. Because I’ve learned to turn toward painful, shameful, and expansive spaces within myself, I’m not afraid to accompany you into those spaces, too.

I live with my husband and our two cats in Phoenix, Arizona, on the unceded ancestral lands of the Huhugam, Akimel O’odham, and Piipaash nations.

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Arizona (LMFT15666) and California (LMFT136599)

    MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, Bethel Seminary San Diego 2013

    BS in Interdisciplinary Studies- Business and Family Studies/Human Development, ASU 2010

    Advanced Training:

    Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy- Level II

    Sensorimotor Psychotherapy- Level 1

    Emotion Focused Therapy- Externship

    Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy- Certificate of Completion

  • I began my work at San Diego Hospice, supporting people nearing end of life along with their friends and family. I also facilitated running groups for those experiencing unexpected or sudden loss. 

    From there, I spent several years at a community counseling center in central Los Angeles, followed by work in community mental health doing in-home family preservation services. Eventually, I transitioned into private practice, where I’ve continued to deepen my work ever since.

Healing Oriented

My practice is guided by a healing orientation rather than a pathological one. I view symptoms as the body’s intelligent response to overwhelming pain and emotion. To me, symptoms are expressions – ways the body communicates what has happened, what it needs, and what matters. Together, we approach these expressions with curiosity and compassion, exploring what they reveal about what needs care and healing.

Somatic

Body-led and emotion focused. Experiential.

Talking alone can bring helpful insight, but transformation often requires going beneath the stories we tell. Trauma lives in the body, and our bodies carry unconscious information: patterns of protection, residue from the past, and relational blueprints that shape our experience of the world. These patterns influence our decisions, our reactions, and our sense of safety, often without us even realizing it.

That’s why we let the body lead! We will follow sensation and emotion to show us what needs tending to. This approach helps us access the parts of ourselves that talking alone may not reach. We still do a lot of talking, we just allow space for emotion and sensation to emerge.

 My APPROACH

Holistic

Mind, body, and spirit have never been separate. Our work will honor their connection, as well as the influence of the cultural, familial, and systemic contexts we live in. Our body’s expressions make so much sense in response to the systems they are a part of.

I also recognize the impact of intergenerational and historical trauma, and how reconnecting with your roots can support healing.

Relational & Authentic

Attachment Focused.

Because wounding happens in relationships, healing does too. Therapy is just one of the places where relational repair can take place. We’ll also identify other places in your life and community where connection can support your healing.

I’m committed to co-creating a relationship where you feel safe enough to revisit parts of yourself that once felt overwhelming to face alone. I play an active, engaged role in our sessions so you can feel I am truly in it with you.

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Modalities

My primary lens is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic modality grounded in research on attachment and emotion, that helps people move out of cycles of suffering into new patterns of connection and growth.

AEDP is a therapeutic modality that draws from attachment theory, affective neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, trauma psychology, somatic psychology, memory reconsolidation, transformational change studies and positive neuroplasticity. Learn more about AEDP here.

I have additional training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) and weave these modalities into my work to enhance and tailor the therapeutic process.

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