Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
You’ve been called “self-aware” but still feel stuck. You have a hard time opening up to people and feel like it’s hard to trust others. Maybe you have all the coping skills in the world, but you’re exhausted trying to cope through life every day. Your inner monologue is full of self-blame and shame. No matter what you accomplish, you never feel like enough. I want to help you get at the root of your struggles so that you can truly enjoy your life.
My Background and Approach
As someone who has been a client myself, I value a therapy approach that gets to the root cause of suffering. That's why I utilize Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Coherence Therapy primarily. My approach looks at your suffering and says that based on your lived experience, it makes complete sense that you cope and feel the way that you do. It's my philosophy that, in order to heal, we need to move towards the feelings, beliefs, and experiences that are at the root of our pain so that we can unburden them. While doing that, my goal is to honor each person's individual experience. We all come from different cultures, races, orientations, generations, and abilities and I believe those shape our healing process. My approach places your emotional safety as a client as the first priority by creating opportunities to give me feedback about what is and isn't working so that transformational work can take place. I consider it an honor that folks allow me to be a part of their healing.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
At Conscious Counseling, it’s my first priority to meet you, the client, where you are and build a foundation of trust. I want every part of you to feel welcomed in our work together. I don’t believe in strict rules for how therapy “should” go and I see my role as someone with expertise and knowledge who can accompany you on the journey to unburdening yourself from pain and trauma while honoring that you know yourself best. I use a non-pathologizing approach that allows us to look at your symptoms and patterns with compassion. Through exploring your lived experience, we learn how these symptoms and patterns were created to keep you safe. In my work, I make it a point to acknowledge the larger systems at play that stifle and oppress you, including the mental health system. I am constantly striving to learn how to lead with a decolonizing approach and to use approaches meant to address all the ways that trauma impacts us.