Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Group
About My Clients
I specialize in helping adults navigate depression, anxiety, relationship & parenting distress, sexual functioning concerns and sexual trauma, as well as high stress, high profile careers. I collaborate with clients to cultivate confidence, emotional awareness & regulatory skills, healthy sexual expression, and communication & intimacy skills. I strive to balance being a helping professional with being human to create a safe container for folks to explore all of parts of themselves.
My Background and Approach
I work with clients to meet their unique goals around relational distress, sexuality concerns, healing trauma, and navigating high stress, high performance professions. I am affirming of clients in the LGBTQIA+, kink, and non-monogamous communities and am committed to anti-racist practices. Clients describe me as non-judgmental, emotional intelligence-based, & a compassionate listener and translator of their experiences. In treatment I utilize an eclectic approach integrating parts work, CBT, Mindfulness, DBT, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Systemic Sex Therapy. I help clients to identify and harness their innate strengths, while integrating new skills. I am in awe of how our nervous systems adapt to survive overwhelming situations, and I love teaching people about their innate resilience and abilities to heal and connect to self and others. I believe that understanding why we respond the way we do is paramount in building the self-compassion necessary to live in line with our values.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am grateful that my early introduction to psychotherapy included trauma-informed practice, as I now see how we are all impacted by experiences that overwhelm our nervous systems' abilities to cope at some point in our lives. I believe education, emotional intelligence, self-compassion, and curiosity without judgement are all paramount in the healing journey. Though I strive to help folks balance self-compassion and personal accountability, I find that I often lean heavily into self-compassion practices. I believe in the power of paradox; that giving yourself a break & affirming when it's "good enough" opens up space to be more accountable in following through with the promises we make to ourselves and others. That validating and sitting with painful emotions actually softens them and doesn't make them more debilitating. And that prioritizing rest & self-care creates more space to work creatively and efficiently.