Aly Dearborn is a polvagal-guided psychotherapist with twenty years of post-masters clinical experience. She currently offers (online) individual psychotherapy, group therapy, psychoeducational women’s groups, and coaching services for adult women.
She has specific expertise in complex trauma and adhd/autism, and her practice is centered around working with women, including lesbians/bisexuals/heterosexuals, women in midlife, women in long-term recovery, other mental health professionals, and those who want to engage in feminist analysis. She also provides professional trainings and consultation for clinicians on the female experience of ADHD and Autism, differential diagnosis, sexual violence prevention, recognizing dating violence and coercive control tactics, and other topics.
Approach: Aly is highly collaborative in her approach and enjoys offering options about ways to work together. Drawing from Rogerian/client-centered, psychodynamic, and polyvagal theories and trauma-informed interventions such as Attachment Focused-EMDR, expressive arts, and other tools, Aly seeks to support women in the development of a nurturing, protective, and reality-based relationship with the SELF. She sees the autonomic nervous system as a profound source of embodied wisdom and engages clients in learning ways to resource from within themselves and through observing nature.
She encourages everyone to unplug more from technology and to spend more time immersed outside in the natural world, engaging in activities that foster “flow state” experiences, and noticing “glimmers” or micro-moments of joy, contentment or inspiration.
For more see: about and work with me. Contact: alyd.mft@gmail.com
“You can learn a lot of things from the flowers . . .” Alice in Wonderland