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About My Clients
Are you struggling with relationship challenges that leave you feeling anxious, sad, with a sense of shame, or feeling of being stuck? I believe that when pain, struggle, and feelings are given respectful, and compassionate attention and when one can access connection, the freedom to learn and listen to all of our parts, past and present, joy, freedom, and life possibilities are made possible.
My Background and Approach
My therapeutic approach is grounded in the core belief that it is in and through relationship that we find meaning, emotional health, and well-being. I will walk alongside you with warmth, a non-judgmental presence, and a collaborative stance that builds upon your strengths and wishes. I work within a frame that integrates feminist, relational-cultural theory, existential phenomenology, and recent contributions of neuroscience that focus on somatic, or body-based healing, in tandem with attachment and narrative therapies. This means I bring a trauma-informed and holistic lens that centers a perspective on a systemic understanding of power dynamics and patterns of interaction situated within familial and cultural contexts, shaped politically and historically. If you are facing internal or relationship struggle (with a partner, a parent, adult siblings, or a child) and you are feeling stuck or overwhelmed, I can support you through these challenges with new tools and practices.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a white-bodied, cis-gendered, and able-bodied woman, I understand that privilege and power constantly flow through the body I live in. I am committed to ongoing learning and inner work in these areas. I take a gender-affirming and outside-of-binary thinking approach to human relatedness. I believe that working across race and other social group differences has the potential to be healing. And, I know that ways we relate across human differences can also reaffirm of ongoing experiences of racism and other forms of oppression. I aim to bring humility, passion, and a steadfast, ethical commitment to working on issues of white supremacy, de-centering whiteness, settler colonialism, racial identity, and racism. I am accountable for how I take up and recognize these dynamics, which I view as essential to my ongoing learning and inner work in consultation with others also ethically committed in these ways. I bring great respect and care for who you are, and for who you want to be.