I create a safe space to allow client to discuss any issue they feel is important or pressing to the client. My approach is that clients are the experts in their lives and I want clients to set the tone/topics for sessions.
I create a safe space to allow client to discuss any issue they feel is important or pressing to the client. My approach is that clients are the experts in their lives and I want clients to set the tone/topics for sessions.
I work from an integrative approach, utilizing CBT, DBT, humanistic, trauma-informed, and strengths based approach to help clients explore, examine, and process thoughts and feelings and increase strengths to increase mental wellness.
Explore and ease anxiety, depression, distressing thoughts and unhelpful behaviors, stress, confusion regarding self-identity, and/or past trauma/s.
Explore and ease anxiety, depression, distressing thoughts and unhelpful behaviors, stress, confusion regarding self-identity, and/or past trauma/s.
The foundation of my work is psychodynamic. This means that the factors and experiences that have led to where you find yourself at this time are explored and processed. Additionally, I make use of mindfulness and behavioral modalities, when helpful.
I’m here to listen to you, validate your feelings, challenge your thoughts, support your decisions, share expertise, brainstorm solutions, and create a relaxing, safe, and nurturing environment for you to be your true and authentic self.
I’m here to listen to you, validate your feelings, challenge your thoughts, support your decisions, share expertise, brainstorm solutions, and create a relaxing, safe, and nurturing environment for you to be your true and authentic self.
I operate from a person-centered approach, which means that I start with what is top of mind for you and help reach the goals that YOU have identified. I utilize various techniques, including CBT, DBT, mindfulness, trauma work, psychodynamic work.
By sharing your story and being curious, we help you connect the dots between your thoughts, emotions, impulses, behaviors and blind spots. We want to understand what shaped you and the patterns that contributed to how you see yourself.
By sharing your story and being curious, we help you connect the dots between your thoughts, emotions, impulses, behaviors and blind spots. We want to understand what shaped you and the patterns that contributed to how you see yourself.
Therapy is guided by empathy, understanding, and empowerment. I view therapy as encouraging people to view their life as changeable by their situation, in which they can identify realistic steps that promotes positive change and healing.
As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.
As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.
I am a bilingual (English/Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian) therapist. I offer culturally informed therapy and acknowledge individual, intergenerational, historical, racial, and social trauma. These traumas are often at the root of modern human issues.