Services
About My Clients
We're born inclined towards love, connection, and meaning, but then life happens. We survive, we adapt, we protect, we shut down in ways that keep us safe while cutting ourselves off from vital, loving parts. Over a lifetime, this can lead to out-of-control experiences like depression, numbness, anxiety, rage, or substance use. You are strong - you have survived - and I would like to help you heal and get you back to (or create for the first time) the life that you deserve.
My Background and Approach
It depends on what’s feeling important! If you'd like, we could explore the role of trauma and wounds in your life and work together to gain a sense of safety and agency around these feelings. If you are then interested in deeper work, we could do some processing via EMDR or the Flash Technique, both evidence-based interventions that can heal wounds in a way that talk therapy alone can't do. Regardless - you set the pace. If your substance use is a concern for you, we could get curious about the needs you are meeting through your use, and whether you would like additional ways to get those needs met. We could work with your grief, working towards ways to remain connected to what you've lost, navigating feelings you're not sure if you're supposed to feel ("I feel sadness - and relief" or "I just feel angry"). Or maybe you're like most people - our grief, our trauma, our tendencies toward compulsive or addictive behaviors - are all interwoven. We can work on that too, at your pace.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
In addition to the above, I view things from a trauma-informed, systemic, culturally competent, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ affirming lens. I am interested in helping you validate what might be a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable system.