Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My services are most tailored to serve individuals experiencing personality disorders; people with complex trauma histories such as childhood abuse, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence; persons with histories of self-harm and suicidality; and I will be offering services for minor attracted persons shortly.
My Background and Approach
My approach to therapy is strengths-based and uses an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy framework, which emphasizes expanding on a person's capacity to build a meaningful life in the presence of unpleasant, uncomfortable, and unwanted thoughts and emotions. My goal is to support you in feeling a greater sense of agency, joy, and contentment without focusing on changing or stopping those internal experiences. Your brain is allowed to have whatever thoughts it comes up with - you can't control that - but you can gain greater control over your responses to them. Our work will focus on processing the things that got you reaching out for therapy in the first place, deepening insights into yourself, and building skills to feel safer and more comfortable with yourself, and safer and more comfortable with others.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
We often think that healing from trauma means living a life where there is no evidence that that trauma ever occurred. What if, instead of erasing all evidence of trauma, healing is building a life that is meaningful, peaceful, and fun, in the presence of that evidence? The empowerment that comes from owning your life, feeling good or even okay in your life, is absolutely within reach even if there is an occasional trigger. Even if some evidence remains. Trauma is often present for someone with a personality disorder (terrible name), but is not required for a diagnosis. Regardless of your history, you deserve attentive, compassionate care that eschews the stigma of personality disorders and knows that you are a full person who is capable of growth and success, however you define it. That is what I aim to provide.