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About My Clients
Are you struggling to manage the highs and lows of mood regulation? Do you feel like your diagnosis is misunderstood or minimized by others? Are you drained from the constant cycle of appointments, managing your health, and trying to maintain balance in your daily life? Are you feeling alone in your experience? As a clinician who has supported many individuals with emotional dysregulation, including bipolar disorder, and as someone who personally understands the challenges of managing mental
My Background and Approach
In our sessions, we’ll use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and therapeutic journaling as tools to help you navigate mood regulation, but we’ll also bring in all the messy, real parts of life. I am not a blank slate therapist, I am a person and will show up as one, curse words and coffee cups and all! I hope to learn together about emotional regulation and our abilities to increase our distress tolerance and listen to our bodies on days we need to rest. I specialize in helping you rewrite the
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My approach to therapy is through a collaborative and kind approach, I want to foster a space in which you feel seen, heard, and respected in all ways. While I do utilize a DBT and trauma informed care based approach, every session will be tailored to fit your needs and comfortability. I utilize strategies based in narrative therapy, and find productive benefit in therapeutic journalling and writing based work with those who are interested. I specialize in working with adults and teens struggling with substance misuse, borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, complicated grief, anger, OCD, and adjustment challenges (adjusting to adulthood, retirement, newly divorced, co-parenting, etc). Outside of therapy I spend my time with my partner and plants! I love to bake and create art, I’m incredibly passionate about learning, I try to learn at least one new thing every day and challenge my clients to do the same in session. I feel lucky to be a small