Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Child
About My Clients
The fundamental core of my practice is to foster a safe and nurturing environment with authenticity, spontaneity, and humor. As your therapist, I will listen closely, ask questions, share my observations, and offer insights and tools for us to consider together. My aim is to help you understand the roots of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. I pay close attention to the ways in which culture and society influence your sense of self and understanding of the world.
My Background and Approach
As a relational therapist, it is my goal for us to have a trusting relationship in which you feel comfortable disclosing these intimate experiences. I utilize a strength-based approach, using what matters to you most as a guide towards making positive changes in your life. In my practice, change usually happens when parts of my clients that have been previously unacknowledged become finally articulated: symptoms lessen, self-relationship strengthens, and repetitive ways of behaving and relating shift. The result is a process that is challenging, yet exciting and transformative. Each individual is unique as is their self-discovery process. Depending on your needs, I draw from psychodynamic, emotion-focused, existential, and trauma/attachment-based psychologies. Clients come to see me for a variety of reasons, including chronic and acute trauma and/or stress, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship/familial concerns, major life transitions, or to explore their sociocultural identity.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe there is no "one size fits all approach". Our experiences are shaped by our genetics/biology, our sociocultural location, our ancestral stories, and our wonderfully individual personalities. I believe that with a deep understanding of every human's needs, wants, motivations and conflicts, compassion and community can be nurtured. You are not broken, damaged, or messed up. Life is messy, and you are doing your best to adapt to it. I believe in empowering you with the best tools (that come from within!) to live you most authentic, unapologetic life.