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About My Clients
Whether you’ve lost a loved one or lost yourself, you're struggling with the question of “why” or “why me," you're heartbroken or the one who did the breaking, I'm here to help. I specialize in grief/loss and relationship issues (family/romantic conflict and trauma). Among the more unfavorable feelings we all experience (because there are no "bad" ones), some of my favorites to work through with clients include grief, shame, self-doubt, self-criticism, regret, fear and worry, and anger.
My Background and Approach
As a relational therapist, I believe relationships and connection are at the heart of healing and growth, and therefore I prioritize our therapeutic relationship above all else. Our earliest sessions I focus heavily on building trust and a secure bond with you. From there, my work becomes a way of being with you, relating, validating, questioning, and challenging. With a foundation in emotionally focused therapy and attachment science, I am highly attuned and engaged, allowing you to expand and restructure emotional experiences in the safety of our sessions. I also pull from family systems approaches, believing that our distressing emotions, thoughts, and behaviors make sense within the systems we live in. I also know every client is unique and will respond differently to various approaches and, therefore, may need different interventions. I love to bring my clients what is best for them and may pull from other evidence-based and empirically supported theories and modalities.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I'd love to share with your where my practice name comes from. Rocks have a lot of symbolism across many cultures and religions. They represent strength, steadiness, and stability. They are foundational and resilient. With rock, you can rebuild. Most importantly, they are constantly being broken down and transformed over time by many different things through slow and steady processes. With my relational and systemic approaches, I see humans this way. We are influenced and formed by many different things (i.e., experiences, upbringing, relationships), and must learn to accept that we are always changing with self-compassion and courage. So that, in the times when we are being broken down, we can greet those challenges expectantly knowing transformation is to come. We can be our own rock; and can serve as a rock to others. I believe God is my rock and He fuels my ability to do this work. Relational therapy emphasizes the fundamental importance of of secure relationships.