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About My Clients
Matrescence, or the identity shift at the heart of becoming a mother, is a deep, confronting process. So much surfaces during this transition. Maybe you're feeling far away from yourself and unsure when the ground will steady itself again. Maybe old losses, traumas, and wounds are returning to you in new ways, or you're feeling lost in the forest of change. Regardless of what has brought you here, this is a period of profound transformation, and an incredibly rich time to engage in this work.
My Background and Approach
I believe therapy is a sacred relationship. It’s not primarily about modalities or interventions (though these matter) but about the relationship, and what happens within it. I believe you are already whole, and that much of our suffering happens when we live within systems and a culture that gives us no adequate container to voice and make meaning out of our challenges or guide us through our transitions, and when we lose contact with the healing, steadying light that exists within ourselves. I practice psychodynamically, which means the relationship is the heart of the work. I draw on depth-oriented, IFS-informed, and Narrative approaches as languages for the deeper work of individuation. I like to weave in active imagination, meditation, and EMDR as vehicles for accessing deeper insight, underneath the level of the intellect, and integrating beyond the level of talk therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
No matter who you are, I believe that you are worthy of dignity, respect, and care. I am open to all spiritual and religious belief systems and respectful of how much or how little you want to include these beliefs/traditions in your therapy work. I believe strongly in every person's right and ability to define their unique values, and I emphasize building inner trust, integrity, and discernment in the process of living your values in the world. I seek to understand others in their full complexity, without preconceived ideas of who they are - this includes the contexts and communities you live in, your personal values, your experiences, your history, and the identities you hold, as well as your relationships to those aspects of yourself.