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About My Clients
I work with individual clients ages 8 and up who are seeking support in navigating neurodivergence, gender or sexual identity, facing life transitions, codependency or relational issues, identity exploration, or unpacking trauma, anxiety, or depression. I'm enthusiastic about working with people who are open to slow and steady self-exploration, wanting to create or maintain a trusting and forgiving relationship with themselves, and those who appreciate a balance of humor and sincerity.
My Background and Approach
I approach sessions from a collaborative standpoint, with an emphasis on your positive strengths and attributes. Together we can draw out the self compassion you already hold within, and celebrate every win no matter how small it might seem to others, or even yourself. I work to abolish any power differentials in the therapeutic relationship so we're on even ground. I do this because you're the expert on yourself, and I am a conduit through which we can process what led you to seek therapy. I don't stand above you in any of this healing work, I stand in it and face it with you as we go through your internal journey together. In the technical sense, I often use a person-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to sessions. I like to pull from IFS, play-informed therapy, DBT, CBT, attachment theory, and motivational interviewing. My approach involves taking bits of different modalities that you may resonate with or find helpful and tailoring it to your needs.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe in working to dismantle oppressive systems and acknowledge the role that these systems and institutions play in our mental health struggles, psychological injury, and overall distress as humans. I understand the role that intersectionality plays in oppression and privilege, and work to remain aware of and deconstruct my own privilege and implicit biases I have. I think a trusting therapeutic relationship where co-regulation can be modelled safely is an important part of doing healing work, so I'll share a bit about me to help you connect: I'm a queer transmasculine person (they/them), I have ADHD and anxiety, and I live with a large grey cat named Peeky who you may hear meowing loudly if we have telehealth sessions. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, being in nature, entertaining Peeky, and spending time with my niece.