address your addictive behaviors, and any other concerns, by improving your relationship with yourself and others, building insight into your unique history, integrating therapeutic tools, and deepening your mind-body connection.
address your addictive behaviors, and any other concerns, by improving your relationship with yourself and others, building insight into your unique history, integrating therapeutic tools, and deepening your mind-body connection.
I use a harm reduction approach to understanding and treating substance use and other compulsive behaviors. This approach explores a number of contributing factors, such as co-occurring mental illnesses, family relationships, and medical problems.
Explore barriers to healthy relationships, Coping skills to regulate mood and anxiety, Problem solving skills
Explore barriers to healthy relationships, Coping skills to regulate mood and anxiety, Problem solving skills
I am trained in a variety of evidenced based practices. Foundationally though, I am grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Explore the specifics of your story to get to the root as to why your mental health is the way it is, find what you need in order to move out of old distressing patterns and into new paths of wellbeing, and nourish your authenticity.
Explore the specifics of your story to get to the root as to why your mental health is the way it is, find what you need in order to move out of old distressing patterns and into new paths of wellbeing, and nourish your authenticity.
My approach is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and trauma informed. I see mental health experiences as natural reactions to your environment- your nervous system is reacting this way for a reason, and I will help lead you in an inquiry to figure out why.
Therapy will focus on setting boundaries, assertiveness, conflict resolution and recognizing unhealthy relationship patterns. We will also examine intergenerational trauma and messages internalized about skin color/shade, hair texture and body type.
Therapy will focus on setting boundaries, assertiveness, conflict resolution and recognizing unhealthy relationship patterns. We will also examine intergenerational trauma and messages internalized about skin color/shade, hair texture and body type.
Individual therapy techniques include DBT, CBT and healthy relationship skill building. Skill building includes assertiveness training, conflict-resolution, overcoming chronic people pleasing and setting healthy boundaries with others.
Together we will collaborate to find strategies that work for you to reach your goals and to alleviate symptoms. We will look at your history in depth to build insight and work to get your to better cope with life's struggles.
Together we will collaborate to find strategies that work for you to reach your goals and to alleviate symptoms. We will look at your history in depth to build insight and work to get your to better cope with life's struggles.
Eclectic and open, I use a three prong approach to look at past, present and future. Blending psychodynamic theory, CBT and strength based we can explore attachments, challenge your thought patterns and schemas and build upon your strengths!