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About My Clients
My clients tend to cluster in three general spheres: people managing mental health symptoms like anxiety and sleep issues, personnel in high-stress environments (i.e. first-responders, EMTs, doctors, nurses, etc.), and individuals balancing creative work with their making-a-living work (often overlapping with experiences of ADHD). Many of those I meet with have some combination of mindfulness tools, creative outlets, and movement practices where they find both insight and wellbeing.
My Background and Approach
As a Humanistic practitioner, I draw from awareness practices like Buddhist Psychology, Gestalt, and Jungian dreamwork / archetypes. Before clinical and graduate work with clients, I worked as a Shift Lead for the San Francisco Warm Line, a peer-support phone line supporting mental health throughout the Bay Area of California. Concurrently, I also facilitated a recovery group for Bayside Recovery Centers of San Rafael, and San Francisco, CA.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I'm a believer that most people would benefit from weekly therapy sessions at some juncture in their lifespan. I think the challenge to making that work is finding the "right" match in a practitioner, and believing that change is possible. Some of the most rewarding moments of my work with clients is when I see them discover a new way of thinking about a challenge their facing— often in real time— and their eyes going wide with epiphany. 'What if...' is how I'd describe that general feeling, which now I've seen visit many people during sessions. It's that moment when overwhelm transforms to curiosity, possibility and hope.