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About My Clients
I work with anxiety, depression, managing stress, and resolving trauma. I enjoy working with self-understanding around non-mainstream identities, such as gender identity, sexual identity, and alternative family structures like polyamory. I work with helping people connect to their emotional bodies, becoming fully present for the range of emotions. Learning to give all feelings space to be expressed and understood gives us access to our whole being.
My Background and Approach
While primarily grounded in Somatic Attachment Therapy, I employ aspects of various theories when working with individuals or groups, including Yalom’s group therapy approaches, Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. I believe everyone is doing the best they can and that most dysfunctions are adaptive behavioral strategies developed over a person’s lifetime of experiences. We do not always need to know the reason for a given strategy, but we can have compassion and understanding that there is a reason and, from there, work on changes supporting clients’ needs and goals. Creating a safe and judgment-free environment is the best way to move forward.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Everything we do or feel makes sense if we know enough about the underlying question, “Why did I do that?” We don’t always have to know the why, but understanding that principle gives us space to be compassionate, learn how to make space for our feelings and behaviors, and then figure out how to make loving changes if those feelings and behaviors are not serving us. In working with my anxiety and depression, I have found this the most effective way to move from being not okay to okay, and then to thriving. I am here to accept you as you are while advocating for the change or growth you desire in your life.