Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Are you carrying emotional baggage that isn't going away on its own? Have you been diagnosed with PTSD, or think you might qualify for that diagnosis? Do you like to process your emotions by talking? Or want to learn how? If you answered 'yes' to all three, you're my ideal client. Let's do a consult to see how it would feel to work together. My clients come from many backgrounds, and I work to help them decrease trauma symptoms so they can exist more easily in this world.
My Background and Approach
I take a professional-yet-informal, eclectic, and compassionate approach to therapy. I try to build bridges of understanding between myself and my clients. I want people to feel comfortable talking about everything that is important to them in my office. In my current trauma work, I start by asking you about your life and giving you some tests. These are short written tests, and we can fill them out together in-session if that is easier than doing them alone. Once I have a better picture of your symptom severity and possible diagnosis, we decide together what your treatment will look like. One track is Rogerian talk therapy, which is the basic and informal talk therapy most people are familiar with. The other track is Cognitive Processing Therapy, which is more structured, has homework, and is shown to decrease trauma symptoms in most people quickly. Some clients move on when they feel better, but some stay or return to do additional work because they like my approach to therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that humans are unbelievably complicated, and that open communication is the only way to actually know what's going on in someone's head. I like how diverse we all are, internally and externally. It makes more things possible.