Services

Individual Psychotherapy

You have the right to be seen and recognized in your grief and not judged. You deserve to have a safe space to share your innermost thoughts and feelings with a trusted partner. You are capable of deep healing, with the ability to live a life that is congruent with your integrity and values. You deserve a break, with time to breathe and deeply care for yourself. Your life, your thoughts and your feelings matter. Whatever challenges you are confronting right now, please know that there is a safe space to explore, learn and grow.

I work with clients who have endured loss, and experienced the growing pains of transition. Utilizing a holistic and client-centered framework, I support individuals and couples in harnessing their potential to heal. I collaborate with individuals and couples to develop treatment plans to help pave the way towards success.

Each of us has a story. Each of us wants to be seen. Each of us has struggled. I wish to provide you with a safe container to explore your story. I wish to partner with you, and support you in your quest to heal your way to wholeness. For when you show up in your wholeness, the whole world benefits. And this world needs you...

Integrative Healing Therapy

In 1999, Avantika began a non-traditional healing arts program in the deep woods of New Hampshire. There she learned this unique form of process therapy, where one is guided to deeply connect with the core of themselves, allowing the body to guide the process. This form of therapy is done with the participant laying in a supine position, with eyes closed. Expertly guided and deeply transformational, this is an accelerated healing modality.

Reiki

The word "Reiki" means "mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign." It comes from the Japanese words "rei" (universal) and "ki" (life energy). Reiki is a type of energy healing. Energy healing targets the energy fields around the body. According to practitioners, energy can stagnate in the body where there has been physical injury or possibly emotional pain. In time, these energy blocks can cause illness. Energy medicine aims to help the flow of energy and remove blocks in a similar way to acupuncture or acupressure. Improving the flow of energy around the body, say practitioners, can enable relaxation, reduce pain, speed healing, and reduce other symptoms of illness. Reiki has been around for thousands of years. Its current form was first developed in 1922 by a Japanese Buddhist called Mikao Usui, who reportedly taught 2,000 people the Reiki method during his lifetime. The practice spread to the U.S. through Hawaii in the 1940s, and then to Europe in the 1980s. It is commonly referred to as palm healing or hands-on healing.

Currently, Avantika teaches one class a week at Shilo Farm in Eliot, ME, on Monday evenings from 5:30 - 6:45pm. Utilizing props, this restorative class is meant to enhance relaxation, promote well-being, and reduce stress. For more information, or to check out the other incredible offerings available, check out the Shilo Farm Website.

Avantika offers individual and small group mindfulness-based meditation instruction. Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a regular basis. Whenever you bring awareness to what you’re directly experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions, you’re being mindful. And there’s growing research showing that when you train your brain to be mindful, you’re actually remodeling the physical structure of your brain.

Throughout the year, Avantika offers workshops and retreats to help deepen healing. Often focused on self-care practices, Avantika’s workshops are transformational, uplifting, healing and fun. Check out the CURRENT EVENTS happening now.