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About My Clients
Not connecting with your partner like you used to? Feeling overcome with doubt about building or raising your family? The reality of parenting not matching the expectation? Birth trauma making you doubt yourself? I hear you-you feel irritable, tired, overwhelmed. You can't remember the last time you had 5 seconds to yourself without *SOMEBODY* needing something from you. You haven't felt like....YOU. Even though becoming a parent can be challenging, I can help you learn tools to ease the stress.
My Background and Approach
I'm certified in Perinatal mental health and have extensive training and certifications in trauma training, including Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and clinical hypnosis. I'm formally trained in Dialect Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which is a skills-heavy modality that helps build insight and coping tools that help you to achieve mote meaning and connectedness with yourself and your relationships. My goal is to equip you with skills to help tolerate your emotional response when facing your stressors so you can be the parent and partner you want to be. I do this through balancing validation and change strategies in our sessions so you have tools you can realistically apply in the chaos of daily life. And NEVER any judgment WHEN you don't use a skill-I follow the 80/20 rule for skills.... We're humans, not robots. I have plenty of grace to share with you as you learn to give grace to yourself.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe everybody is capable of healing, even after scary, hopeless, or traumatic experiences. My husband and I struggled with infertility for 3.5 years before conceiving our first child. It felt so hopeless walking that path without support. In my own postpartum experience, I endured postpartum OCD and anxiety while my husband went through postpartum depression. Through our own therapy and healing, I feel that this experience uniquely qualifies me as a professional to help walk other new parents through some of the unexpected difficulties in navigating communications, transitions, and intense emotions that can come along with the perinatal period. If you'd like to learn more about how I can help support you in managing this perinatal journey (TTC, infertility,adoption, birth, postpartum), shoot me a message or schedule a session.