Join me at a FREE Listening Circle virtual event on March 12th!
comprehensive therapeutic services Trauma | Grief | EMDR | DEPTH
Helping individuals build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Your healing journey starts today.
Join me at a FREE Listening Circle virtual event on March 12th!
Helping individuals build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Your healing journey starts today.
Your healing journey is one of deep self-discovery and transformation. It is a process of increasing self-awareness, approaching yourself with compassion and curiosity, reconnecting with your inner wisdom and intuition, and moving toward meaningful, lasting change. Ultimately, it is about becoming more fully yourself and actualizing the life you long for.
Life naturally brings change, uncertainty, loss, and transition. Along the way, we can become stuck—confused, overwhelmed, or disconnected from ourselves. You don’t have to navigate this alone.
If you are reaching out for therapy, you may not be able to pinpoint the root cause of what’s wrong—but you know something isn’t working. Patterns of behaving, coping, or relating to others that once helped you survive are no longer serving you. Instead, they may be limiting your happiness, growth, and sense of connection.
At Sensing the Self, my approach is to meet you exactly where you are and walk alongside you. By building safety, trust, and a strong therapeutic relationship, we create a supportive space to explore negative core beliefs, identity and self-esteem, boundaries, painful life experiences, and the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself.
Our work together is about cultivating a more coherent and integrated inner state—so you can move through the world as your highest Self: connected, compassionate, curious, and creative. From this place, meaningful change becomes possible, and life begins to feel more aligned, grounded, and fulfilling.
Through thoughtful exploration, you’ll begin to connect how earlier experiences and unconscious beliefs shape present-day behaviors. As self-awareness grows, you’ll develop mindfulness and emotion-regulation skills that allow you to respond intentionally rather than react to triggers. Over time, you’ll build the resilience needed to face life’s challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
I believe deeply in client empowerment. With the right support, tools, and resources, every individual has the capacity to grow, heal, and make meaningful changes—even in the face of stress, pain, or uncertainty.
You have a universe within you, and healing is a sacred journey of returning home to yourself. Now is always the right time to seek a fresh perspective and the support you need to show up in the world as your most authentic self. This is the road back to you.

Christina Kaufman, LCSW #111533
Marion Woodman
Attentive and compassionate, my approach is attachment-focused; using the therapist-client bond as a safe space and energetic container, we will meaningfully explore how early relationships with caregivers shape current emotions and behaviors, heal insecure patterns (like anxiety or avoidance), and develop secure ways to connect, trust, and manage emotions for healthier adult relationships. We seek to understand past attachment wounds to foster new, secure patterns and greater resilience, moving beyond just symptoms to core relational patterns.
I also use a strengths perspective and positive psychology framework to empower every client to ultimately be a self-guided healer. You will learn to sense your intuition, embody your inner knowing, and learn to trust your decision-making. You are the author of your story; you alone know your experience.
Additional practice approaches:
My professional journey is motivated by a deep commitment to advancing social and racial justice and equity causes, informed by the necessity of truth-telling and reconciliation in systemic change.
Through a trauma/grief-informed lens and using evidence-based modalities, our work together will help you integrate your thinking, feeling, and intuiting centers.
The goal is to heighten self-awareness, restore an authentic sense of self, and establish safety in your body.
Emotions are physical, trauma is stored in the body, and for many of us we are using to responding to discomfort by numbing, distracting, avoiding, or isolating. These maladaptive approaches do not support safety or connection.
To live an embodied life is to show up in the world with full awareness of thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. It's a deep knowing that is visceral on a cellular level. Embodiment is the act of expanding one's self-awareness to include the felt experience of the body, such as sensory, sensational, emotional, and physical experiences.
It's deeply knowing within the mindbody connection. This presence allows you to be intentional, focused, in the moment, and not just knowing your own truth but believing it.
You don't have to be afraid of feeling your emotions. We will work to support comfort, safety, connection, and presence.
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