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About My Clients
Are you tired of hiding how much you feel? Maybe you overthink, shut down, people-please, grieve quietly, or feel disconnected from who you are. In society there are endless pressures pulling us outward, yet sometimes the path with the greatest potential to bring us peace, freedom, and a deeper sense of meaning is the one that asks us to turn inward. I work with clients who long to understand themselves more deeply, speak more honestly, and feel less alone in the complicated work of being human
My Background and Approach
I believe in emotional honesty, compassion, inclusivity, and the importance of understanding ourselves more deeply. My work is grounded in the idea that therapy should be a place where you can stop hiding, speak more truthfully about your inner life, and be met with warmth rather than judgment. I value authenticity, curiosity, and respect for the many ways identity, culture, sexuality, relationships, and lived experience shape who we are. My values are also shaped by a broader belief that being human is inherently imperfect and complicated. I do not see vulnerability, ambivalence, grief, or emotional struggle as signs of failure. I see them as part of being alive. That perspective matters to me because it allows therapy to become less about fixing a “broken” person and more about helping someone understand themselves more truthfully, challenge harsh inner narratives, and develop a steadier, kinder relationship with who they are.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Through the task of therapy, we are able to lay claim to certain insights. Sections of the map can be filled in; we’ll have a sense of what our childhoods did to us, what exaggerated fears and behaviors we may be carrying, what unhelpful things we do when people love us (and when they don’t), why we fall into moods at specific times of the day. There may be a more reliable connection between what we consciously register and what is really happening in us. We may shorten the distance between feeling and expression; understand a little more of what we want and what we might be suited to. With greater self-knowledge, we will be better able to apologize where appropriate, we’ll be less in need of defensive strategies, we’ll be able to admit to more and to deny less, and we are able to be more stable and funnier because we have a better hold on our contradictions and the gulf between who we hope to be and who we are.