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About My Clients
As a generalist, I enjoy working with teens and adults on a wide range of issues. One of the things I value about being a psychotherapist is getting to know people with different identities, beliefs, and worldviews and seeing our shared humanity. My training includes work in community mental health, an LGBTQ counseling center, the VA, and university counseling centers. I strive to create a space where people from all walks of life are welcome.
My Background and Approach
Typically, there are three mechanisms of change that I promote in my practice of psychotherapy. The first is the therapeutic relationship itself. I strive to engage in deep listening to create a space where you can share of yourself and explore your experience, while I meet you with a warm, open, humorous, and compassionate stance. The second mechanism of change is psychoeducation on practical tools and skills that promote psychological well-being. I might encourage you to find ways to practice these tools and skills outside the session. Much of the process of therapy occurs outside the session as you use these skills and tools out in the world and have new experiences that disconfirm previous limiting beliefs. The third mechanism of change is through experiential work. This might include exploring aspects of your experience in mindfulness, role plays, discovering and connecting to your core values, working with different parts of you that are in conflict, processing past trauma.