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About My Clients
I work with people from all walks of life, including LGBTQIA+ folks and POC. I especially enjoy the privilege of helping clients process grief and loss, process religious trauma, process life transitions, work through relationships issues, to grow in self-awareness, and grow in taking up the space we all deserve as humans and fellow travelers.
My Background and Approach
I practice relational psychodynamic psychotherapy. Basically this means I'm committed to our therapeutic relationship, to going the long distance together so we have time to explore your interiority, understand the depths of your being, and to imagine new ways of being that might offer fresh vitality to your life. We will often pause to consider each other's emotional reactions to what is being shared, and how that might speak to your struggles, and possible ways forward. My aim would be to assist you in gaining access to all of your emotions, to multiple aspects of your self without shame, and gaining self-reflective and self-soothing skills. Taking responsibility for your behavior, growing in tolerating ambiguity, and growing in the strength to be truthful. Finding relief from rigid internal constraints that keep you stuck in problematic patterns. Gaining increased self-efficacy, being better able to love and to work. Last, but not least, gaining a greater capacity for hope.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am formerly of the Christian faith, though I still hold a lot of gratitude for many of the values I gained from this lens on life, particularly those of compassion, generosity, hospitality, and aiming to be present with those around you. I do now land in a more agnostic worldview, but am always interested to hear more about people's faith beliefs. I've often also helped people process religious harm they've experienced and feel honored to help them through the strange cognitive dissonance of forming a new worldview. I am also not afraid of discussing loss. Whether the loss of a loved person or pet through death, the loss of a marriage or relationship that has ended, or other forms of loss that can keep us stuck. Lastly, I'll note that I strongly believe in the power of play, humor, creativity, and engaging our various geek-doms that excite us and fill us with passion.