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About My Clients
I am a trauma-informed, somatically-oriented therapist who is passionate about supporting others through therapy. I provide individual therapy sessions for adults, children, & adolescents, family sessions, and work with parents on building parenting skills, attunement, and school-based issues. I have a special interest in working with clients on: healing from trauma, anxiety, emotion regulation, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, grief, life transitions, & disability-related topics.
My Background and Approach
I hold a trauma-informed, somatically-oriented lens and believe that healing is found through exploring your mental, physical, emotional, and social strengths and needs, examining the impact of past events, exploring your somatic experience, and by tuning into your own wisdom. I draw from somatic, DBT, narrative, mindfulness, and psychodynamic therapies. I encourage you to be an active participant in identifying goals and letting me know how best to help you. I am in training to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and utilize somatic/body-based interventions. I work with children of all ages, parents, teens, families, and educators. In addition the therapy modes listed above, with children (and adults too!) I utilize play, art, sand tray, music, and somatic therapies, and social-emotional learning tools. I provide parent and family sessions focused on building more positive parent-child interactions, and on increasing desired behaviors & decreasing undesired ones.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am trauma-informed and somatically-oriented, which means that I'm interested in understanding the nature of trauma and how it affects our mind and body, and how this then impacts us as individuals, lovers, partners, family members, friends, students, employees, and how this impacts our society. I find this endlessly fascinating. By developing a deeper understanding of ourselves, our strengths and needs, and the somatic, neurological, and behavioral impact of traumas we may have experienced, we can heal and connect with ourselves and others more deeply, authentically, and healthily. I also believe strongly in how the stories we tell, and the engrained ways we view our stories, shape our lives. By changing the stories we tell and the ways we view them, we can find a new way of relating that can bring more peace, revelations, power, and acceptance.