Services
- Individual
About My Clients
This is likely not your first experience searching for a therapist; maybe you've sought help in the past and gained a deeper sense of yourself and the patterns you may struggle with. You have likely made amazing progress in your mental health journey but may feel stuck or limited by intellectual road blocks. I understand deeply how valuable and how limiting our intellectual insights can be in our therapy journey, and am committed to honoring the wisdom of both mind and body for my clients.
My Background and Approach
I am a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in both Washington and Illinois. I have worked since 2017 in the field of mental health in both inpatient, outpatient, and private practice settings. I align most closely with a humanistic/existential talk therapy style with a strong background in dance/movement therapy; a holistic form of psychotherapy which recognizes the integral mind/body connection. Using movement and somatic awareness in therapy can assist the individual in integrating his or her emotions, physical sensations, cognition and connection to the world at large. I also have various levels of experience working with the following modalities and tailor each client relationship to that individual's specific needs; HAES, Intuitive Eating, harm reduction, ERP, IFS/parts-based models (I do not hold ‘level’ training in IFS), relational psychodynamic therapy, Jungian psychoanalytic approaches/depth therapy, ACT, and DBT.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have extensive experience working with eating disorders through the Health At Every Size and Intuitive Eating philosophies and hold a deep belief that all bodies hold value exactly as they are at any given point in time. I center dignity and personal autonomy as primary clinical values and see clients as the experts of their own bodies and experiences and myself as a collaborator.