build skills in navigating systemic oppression, identity, trauma, relationships, mental health issues, chronic pain and self-esteem. We will work towards empowerment through building self-awareness, compassion and nourishing the mind body connection.
build skills in navigating systemic oppression, identity, trauma, relationships, mental health issues, chronic pain and self-esteem. We will work towards empowerment through building self-awareness, compassion and nourishing the mind body connection.
I approach therapy through a non-pathologizing, trauma-informed, and harm reduction lens and understand that the client is the expert of their own experience. I view the clinical relationship as a tool for healing.
Welcome the full range of human experiences and emotions into the counseling space. By exploring your inner world, your past, and the outer systems that shaped them, we can gently begin to create understanding and change.
Welcome the full range of human experiences and emotions into the counseling space. By exploring your inner world, your past, and the outer systems that shaped them, we can gently begin to create understanding and change.
I value a collaborative, interactive approach and utilize a range of modalities to best fit a person’s unique needs and interests. This can include internal family systems, cognitive approaches, and experiential modalities.
Together, we will explore the impact of lifelong experiences and ways to live than survive in the ever-changing world.
Together, we will explore the impact of lifelong experiences and ways to live than survive in the ever-changing world.
My theoretical framework is integrative which includes but is not limited to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PET), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT).
Together, we will collaborate to create a treatment plan that is specific and focused on creating behavioral change. Throughout therapy you will learn the skills to overcome your current issues and better cope with them in the future.
Together, we will collaborate to create a treatment plan that is specific and focused on creating behavioral change. Throughout therapy you will learn the skills to overcome your current issues and better cope with them in the future.
My approach is both direct and caring, with a touch of humor to keep our conversations relaxed and engaging. I strive to create an environment where you feel comfortable and supported, without taking things too seriously.
Our work may include a focus on how to build resilience by developing coping skills, processing current/past trauma, learning to manage and relieve uncertainty about the unknown, and letting go of those old narratives that no longer serve you.
Our work may include a focus on how to build resilience by developing coping skills, processing current/past trauma, learning to manage and relieve uncertainty about the unknown, and letting go of those old narratives that no longer serve you.
I like to use stories about others' experience, or even my own, to relate to what we're trying to describe or process. I don't mind self disclosing if I know it can help you. I prefer a shared and connected experience. No hierarchy.