Services
- Individual
About My Clients
As a counselor, I seek to provide a safe space in which clients can access their innate healing powers. I see the counseling relationship as transformative and advocate the use of curiosity and compassion in the therapeutic process. My focus is on working with clients to heal from the trauma they have experienced and the resulting dis-ease that often follows trauma: depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and other difficulties our society labels “mental illness.”
My Background and Approach
My practice philosophy focuses on providing trauma-competent care to every client, whether they have experienced significant, life-altering trauma or the trauma that results from chronic daily stress and difficult life transitions. I attempt to build genuine caring relationships with my clients. I use an integrative approach in which clients are empowered to heal their pasts so they can move forward with their lives. I encourage my clients to build their own tool sets of self-care and mindfulness practices to help them better cope with life’s challenges. Using gentle but powerful therapies such as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and expressive arts therapy, I work with my clients to heal past trauma and craft the lives they envision.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have always been fascinated by stories of transformation. Whether it was Cinderella’s transition from mistreated maid to princess or Luke Skywalker’s journey from orphan to Jedi knight, hero’s journey stories have had a profound influence on how I made sense of my own path through life and of the world around me. Although I tried on several careers, it was when I knew that I valued transformative relationships that I realized counselor was the right fit for me. As a counselor, I believe it is my job to provide a safe relationship in which clients are able to heal themselves. I love being witness to the amazing transformations that my clients create in their lives when they experience healing!