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About My Clients
In your first session, we’ll get to know each other and explore what brought you to therapy. I’ll ask questions to understand your history, current challenges, and goals, and together we’ll start identifying patterns that may be contributing to stress or overwhelm. I’ll also introduce some practical strategies you can begin using right away. Most importantly, this is a space to feel heard, understood, and supported as we start building a plan tailored to you.
My Background and Approach
I believe meaningful change happens in the context of caring relationships, and I prioritize fostering a gentle, honest space that feels safe and collaborative to you. I draw from a variety of theories for therapeutic work, and find that an integrated approach allows us flexibility as we navigate what healing and progress look like for you or your family. My counseling style is a blend of techniques and theories including: Mindfulness, CBT, DBT, and Somatic techniques. My experience within education and community mental health has lent me insight into the systems and structures that both support and, at times, confine our worlds. My counseling philosophy is reflective of this, and I find that the lenses of Feminist and Multicultural Theory are useful for understanding the layers of our individual experiences as well as developing awareness of our own strengths and capacities in light of our broader world and systemic structures.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that... Therapy is a personal experience- getting at some of the deepest layers of what make us who we are. It is a space for discovering how to live life as only you can, in this body, in this time and space that you find yourself. Growth is as much about attending to the body as it is to the mind. Sometimes transformative learning and insight about what ails us is found in uncovering where our body is stuck holding trauma or old wounds. Healing is always about moving closer to freedom. Approaching wellbeing can be as much about making changes as it is about learning to be with and embrace our present experiences. Human beings thrive when embedded in community and when we are in contact with what brings us joy. Pleasure is important. During different seasons of life, we need different things. Identity is complex and the systems and structures we’ve inherited profoundly impact our experience in the world.