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About My Clients
Therapy is a place where you can come as you are, process life's challenges, relationship struggles, feelings of being stuck, angry, or maybe even ambivalent. In this space we can walk through past trauma, areas of hurt or betrayal, and life transitions to pursue healing, restoration, and authenticity. Together we can notice attachment wounds and past events that may be continuing to shape your narrative and work toward interpersonal, inner growth and acceptance.
My Background and Approach
I utilize a compassion-focused , attachment lens when conceptualizing how best to approach therapy and guiding healing. I integrate a systems perspective with a Bowenian frame of reference, often integrating many modalities. My philosophy of therapy sees the client as the expert on their life and circumstance and I am tasked with supporting your growth and goals. In therapy, we can wade through the muddy waters and find meaning, purpose, and understanding. Personal growth feels safe when we feel heard and understood. Living in this messy world, navigating complex relationships, past wounds and attachment ruptures while attempting to be present, love-well, and hold space for others is challenging. Therapy can be a tool that helps us through difficult seasons and allows us the space to process the things in our rear-view mirror while forging ahead.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am a wife and partner of 31+ years, a mother who's raised teens, and currently parenting young-adults that are in the process of being grown and flown. Our family identifies as transracial and my work to acknowledge privilege and focus on systemic inequality is important and necessary as a mom, human and as a therapist. I am passionate about listening to the voices of adoptees and have spent time researching and learning the specific needs of adoptive families and adoptees. I found therapy as a vocation due to my innate curiosity about people, their stories and experiences. Our past can be equated to being as unique as our fingerprint. Although many can relate to parts of our story, our experience is only-ours. Through therapy we can focus inwardly and identify how attachment ruptures, unmet needs, trauma, abandonment and so many other experiences manifest and continue to breathe into the present.