Integrative Psychotherapy & Somatic Breathwork for Dating & Relationships
You’re not too much. You’re not too hard to love. You’re allowed to want more. More ease. More safety. More intimacy. Just more.
I’m Amy — a dating & relationships psychotherapist and somatic breathwork facilitator. I created The Softening as a tender place to land for individuals & couples navigating heartbreak, dating, disconnection, and the quiet courage it takes to choose a love that feels safe.
Loving someone else is one of the most beautiful and complicated things we do. It’s tangled with old patterns, hope, miscommunication, connection, conflict, and a profound sense of joy. Should we chose it, untangling the knots of our present and past is an act of devotion.
The Softening
A holistic, trauma-informed approach to
dating, relationships, and couple’s work
How We Work
A free 20-minute consultation call to explore your needs and see if we’re the right fit. If we’re not a fit, I promise to help you find someone that is.
CONNECT
We’ll begin with a 75-minute intake session. This space allows us to build safety, explore the different parts of you (and your partner), and start to explore where we’d like to focus our work together. Like all relationships, comfort in therapy can take some time. You set the pace & I’ll follow.
BEGIN
BUILD
Together, we’ll build a personalized blueprint for our work. This process is anything but rigid, so we’ll be fluid with our intentions and check in regularly. We may integrate somatic breathwork or explore referrals to other practitioners (i.e a Naturopathic doctor for hormone regulation).
PRACTICE
A season of deeper work: weekly sessions, reading, practices outside of session, and deep exploration in our time together.
Just like life, our growth doesn’t follow a linear path. That said, in this phase of our work, we’ll take note of your growth (subtle or grand in nature, that’s not really the point) and recalibrate our intentions.
EVOLVE
EBB
Also just like life, therapy comes in waves. At this point in our work, we might decrease session cadence gradually, pause, or close this chapter of work together.