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About My Clients
Nokdu Therapy specializes in serving BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, autistic, ADHDer, and ENM communities. We see teens, adults, couples/polycules, and families. Our team is rigorously trained in targeted skills to support you with complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, suicidality, relationship difficulties, and self-esteem. While venting can be incredibly helpful, we believe therapists must provide support beyond that.
My Background and Approach
Our therapists first focus on building trust, safety, and a relational container to hold your process. We then incorporate various approaches tailored to your needs. Top down methods like CBT, DBT, and ACT can help you learn coping skills and shift perspectives to get through difficult moments in the present moment. While incredibly effective, many eventually hit a wall with talk therapy and top-down only approaches, where you might understand something logically but still feel or react differently. That's where somatic, or bottom-up, approaches can take the healing process to the next stage. Somatic therapies like EMDR, Brainspotting & IFS can help your nervous system engage in deeper healing so that past pain is less visceral, and long-term healing feels possible. This can help you break out of cycles of emotional overwhelm, disconnection, self criticism, low self esteem, and isolation. Our therapists will create a tailored approach that is specific to you, your contexts, and needs.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Nokdu Therapy views mental health work as a liberatory practice where we are ethically mandated to critically engage with our place in the medical industrial complex and deconstruct systems of power. We are grateful to learn from the frameworks of transformative justice, healing justice, abolition, disability justice, & reproductive justice. We utilize a neurodivergent affirming framework to understand and work with the different ways our brains and nervous systems are wired. We believe that our individual experiences are inseparable from the relational, community, and systemic contexts that we live in. You deserve a therapist who understands that racism, transphobia, homophobia, biphobia, ableism, colonization, and xenophobia shape the container of your experiences, and cannot be relegated as a sidequest that is mentioned in your first session and never revisited.