Flora's Approach
I came to this work with a deep curiosity around what forms a person-how we become who we are, what brings about healing, and what leads to greater freedom and courage.
Many of the people I work with already understand themselves remarkably well. They can name their patterns, trace their origins, recognize what they want to change etc., yet they still find themselves responding in familiar ways. This is why my work attends not only to the mind, but to the emotions, body, relationships, and deeper questions of meaning, purpose and identity that shape our lives. Often the answers that count lie in those deeper recesses.
Because of this, my approach is both thoughtful and experiential. At times our work may involve reflection and conversation; at others, we may work with the body, emotion, imagery, memory, or deeper states of awareness. I draw from a range of therapeutic approaches, but I don’t believe therapy should feel like something being done to you. It is gentle, collaborative and creative- unfolding at a pace that feels right.
At the heart of my work is a belief that healing is not about becoming a more polished or acceptable version of yourself. It is about becoming more connected to your essence, more able to choose how you want to live and more observant of the good in your life, and ultimately more free to love and be loved.
It is a privilege to accompany people in this process. Reach out if you are ready!
My Specialty Areas
Depression
Depression can look like sadness, but it can also feel like disconnection, chronic irritability, numbness, exhaustion, or a loss of meaning. Together we'll become curious about what your experience of depression may be communicating while helping you reconnect with vitality, purpose, and a fuller sense of self.
Anxiety
Anxiety can make it difficult to settle, even if you know intellectually that you are safe. It can lead to overthinking, bracing, controlling, and general antsiness. Therapy can help you understand what the anxiety is protecting while developing a greater capacity for steadiness, flexibility, and ease in your mind and body.
Trauma
Trauma can continue to shape how you feel, relate, and respond long after an experience has ended. Sometimes the origins are clear, and other times the effects show up more subtly through anxiety, disconnection, avoidance, shame, hypervigilance, and patterns in relationships. Therapy can help process what is unresolved so that the past rests in the past.
Existential Concerns
Sometimes the struggle isn't simply anxiety or depression, but a deeper questioning of meaning, identity, purpose, spirituality, and direction. Therapy can be a place to explore such questions seriously and openly, without rushing toward an easy answer. This work is particularly close to my heart and is part of what drew me to psychotherapy. I love helping clients wrestle honestly with the deeper questions of their lives and discover answers they can live by.
Relationships
Our relationships often reveal some of our deepest longings and oldest patterns. You may find yourself repeatedly pursuing, withdrawing, overdoing, people-pleasing or struggling to feel secure and known. Together we'll explore attachment patterns and the experiences underneath your dynamics, moving toward healthier more connected and honest relationships.
ADHD
ADHD affects more than attention. It can shape motivation, trust in yourself, emotional regulation, relationships, and the stories we create about ourselves after years of struggling with things that seem to come naturally to others. Therapy can make more sense of those experiences, instill greater compassion, and develop ways that work with, not against, your mind.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Sometimes we need another way of accessing what has been difficult to reach through ordinary means.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the therapeutic relationship with the altered state of consciousness produced by ketamine. For some people, this experience can create a temporary shift in familiar patterns of thinking and relating, producing greater openness, flexibility, and access to emotions, memories, and perspectives that might otherwise feel hard to reach.
At Seven Wells, Ketamine is not treated as a shortcut or stand-alone solution. The medicine is one part of a larger therapeutic process that includes preparation, the ketamine experience itself, and integration afterward during the window of enhanced neuroplasticity in the brain (48 hours). The intention is not simply to have a powerful experience but to bring about meaningful shifts in your life through the process that free you up.
KAP may be worth exploring when you have done substantial therapeutic work and still feel that something remains difficult to access or shift. It can offer another avenue.
My approach to KAP is grounded, relational, and individualized. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system, history, and sense of readiness. There is no pressure for you to produce a particular kind of experience or breakthrough. My role is to help create conditions for you to safely open up to whatever arises and integrate it afterward.
Curious if KAP is appropriate for you?
We can begin with a conversation about what you are looking for, what the process involves, and whether it makes sense for your particular circumstances.
