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About My Clients
Perhaps you feel broken inside as if everyone around you has a compass guiding them through life while you bumble your way around feeling like nothing more than an empty shell of yourself. You’ve tried therapy, but you’re still feeling hopelessly lost. You feel stuck in an endless cycle of progress followed by a regression. All of this leaves you exhausted and uncertain of how you can keep going. This may be complex trauma and you don't have to stay stuck.
My Background and Approach
Feeling stuck in therapy, even when you've tried "all the tools," absolutely sucks! This is why I take a creative approach to therapy. You're the guide, and I follow your lead. I offer empathy, compassion, and practical tools. If sitting down and getting quiet to do a meditation doesn't work for you, I suggest you go outside and take a mindfulness walk. If you've got a "stuck" feeling, I suggest you paint or move to try to get it flowing out of your body. We collaborate to find the tools that work for you. Sometimes, therapy requires us to dig deep and sit in the uncomfortable. While it takes immense courage to uncover our deepest wounds, doing so gives us access to unimaginable gifts that transform our lives. These gifts allow you to finally develop genuine self-love and confidence. This deep, inner knowing becomes the compass that guide you to inner security and peace; a fulfilling career; genuine, balanced relationships; and a blossoming spiritual life.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Context is key! Systemic oppression plays a huge part in masking the true source for some of our pain. I'm often asking how patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and other oppressive systems are impacting clients. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home which brainwashed these systems into my psyche. Through my own therapeutic work, I began the process of deconstructing these belief systems & my faith. I'm passionate about helping people who have suffered religious & childhood trauma. As part of my own healing process, I've developed my own spiritual practices; come out as bisexual; & married my wife (just the highlights). When I’m not working, you’ll typically find me in a deep conversation with my wife, tending to my fur-babies (3 cats and 1 dog), hyper fixating on some new passion project (because all the shiny things), creating art, scrolling through TikTok, or listening to music, a podcast, or audiobook (sometimes all of the above at the same time… the joys of ADHD. haha).