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About My Clients
Do you find that you often have trouble understanding others or being understood? Does communication and building quality relationships with others feel difficult? Do you find that these issues create emotional distress that you don't quite know how to manage? Emotional insight and interpersonal effectiveness go hand in hand, and I aim to help you understand how to more effectively navigate through the use of DBT interventions grounded in Relational-Cultural and Feminist theory!
My Background and Approach
I ground my work in a Relational-Cultural and Feminist perspective, where a collaborative therapeutic relationship supports you in recognizing, establishing, and reaching meaningful goals. I work primarily with adults on relationship and communication struggles, identity development, depression, and anxiety. Using a grounded therapeutic relationship as our foundation, we will explore the ways in which maladaptive relational patterns and beliefs impact your current ability to access the life you want and deserve. I primarily use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and consider you as the expert on your experience, and I support in developing a more robust understanding of the self and capacity to navigate life's challenges using practical skills in which I have expertise. I create an open, safe, and empowering environment wherein you can build your self-insight in order to improve your sense of personal satisfaction.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My role as a counselor is not to tell you who you are or what you think, but to empower you to access and build upon your already existing insight to gain greater agency and influence in your life where possible. That, to me, means looking at macro-level beliefs, systems, and processes that impact us. We are not at fault or responsible for what has happened to us in our past or for systemic forces that hinder us, but that does not mean we cannot take control of how life experiences influence us in the present to alter their role in our future or how we endorse noxious narratives. I am LGBT+, ENM, and kink-friendly; I am anti-diet and cannot assist in work that is centered around weight loss.