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.
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.
Develop coping skills that can be useful both now and in the future. We will also work to identify negative thoughts, practice new skills, problem solve, and set goals so that you can fully live in the present moment.
Develop coping skills that can be useful both now and in the future. We will also work to identify negative thoughts, practice new skills, problem solve, and set goals so that you can fully live in the present moment.
An Integrative approach uses multiple approaches to help clients. In most cases, this means a combination of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and humanistic therapies. The approach is flexible and based on the needs of the client.
Our past experiences can so often leave scars that make us feel stuck in patterns and disconnected. Together, we will explore how to reconnect with joy, strengthen your sense of self, and learn how to be in health relationships with other.
Our past experiences can so often leave scars that make us feel stuck in patterns and disconnected. Together, we will explore how to reconnect with joy, strengthen your sense of self, and learn how to be in health relationships with other.
My clients often suffer from over thinking and emotional pain. I help clients first ground through somatic work and mindfulness to connect with themselves, then we explore the root narratives surrounding pain using art, writing, and conversation.
Co-create therapy, focused on strengths and survival within these systems, and assisting you to recognize your own resiliency.
Co-create therapy, focused on strengths and survival within these systems, and assisting you to recognize your own resiliency.
I approach therapy through a critical lens to identify all factors impacting our mental health, including the systems under which we are operating, and the detrimental impacts these can have based on multiple identities.