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.
work collaboratively and create an open environment. Success in therapy relies on the foundation of mutual trust and therapeutic alliance. I place the utmost value on respecting my clients, providing a safe and supportive space for growth.
work collaboratively and create an open environment. Success in therapy relies on the foundation of mutual trust and therapeutic alliance. I place the utmost value on respecting my clients, providing a safe and supportive space for growth.
I meet each client with an individualized (client-centered) approach. I emphasize mindfulness, strengths, coping skills and positivity. I utilize aspects of DBT, motivational interviewing, CBT, psychoanalysis, and some other methods.
Figure out what you need to be happier and more fulfilled, less weighed down by past events and by current stressors, more successful in relationships and your career, and more resilient and adaptive to life’s inevitable challenges.
Figure out what you need to be happier and more fulfilled, less weighed down by past events and by current stressors, more successful in relationships and your career, and more resilient and adaptive to life’s inevitable challenges.
We'll start wherever you are and work together to get you to where you want to be, focusing on your own values and goals, not anyone else's. My focus as a therapist is on mental health, not mental illness.
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.
lean into anxiety to re-expand your life, deconstruct your inner-critic, intentionally pursue greater fulfillment, and change patterns keeping you stuck (relational, behavioral, cognitive, etc).
lean into anxiety to re-expand your life, deconstruct your inner-critic, intentionally pursue greater fulfillment, and change patterns keeping you stuck (relational, behavioral, cognitive, etc).
I provide a blend of process and practical, to help gain insight and make change when you are ready. I am intuitive about creating a balance of depth and light heartedness that allows for a full range of emotions, including humor.