Sabina Dominga Williamson (she/her)

As humans, we crave social connection and are meant to exist as social creatures. Especially since the pandemic, we are struggling to connect romantically and platonically. I collaborate with folks in strengthening their support networks, whether in friendship or with partners. I support clients who navigate social anxiety and/or interpersonal challenges. I have experience supporting partnered individuals and couples in improving communication, emotion regulation and in deepening their bonds.

Depression is often accompanied by feelings of paralysis and immobilization. I have years of experience partnering with people in learning about their nervous systems and why they have shut down into states of depression. Together, we can increase mindfulness around your symptoms. With increased insight, we can partner in improving emotion regulation and routine to stabilize your baseline. We can help you work towards living a life that feels more aligned with your desires and values.

Anxiety is a concern that feels intensified when we don't understand it. I have years of experience in helping people better understand their anxiety; so that they know how to offer support to themselves when they need it. Depending on your needs, identities and experiences; we can collaborate in creating a plan that is authentic to you. We'll lean into learning about how your story informs your anxiety; and explore relevant thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, behaviors and coping skills.

This modality highlights the importance of identifying and understanding how we feel. Within this framework, we can work on developing emotion language to help pinpoint how you are truly feeling in moments when you need support from yourself and/or others. We can increase awareness around which emotions tend to come to the surface for you and which emotions you may be pushing down below the surface. By utilizing this approach, we can equip you with a foundation for better regulating and coping.

This is a modality that I utilize to support people in identifying the stories that they may tell themselves, without even consciously realizing. Within this framework, we can identify the voices and messages that you may have internalized from parents, family, peers, mentors, teachers, media and other prominent figures in your life who have helped raise you. We can collaborate in identifying the messages you'd like to hold onto, and the messages you wish to let go of!

This modality offers an alternative option to feeling trapped in your brain with spiraling, self-deprecating, unkind thoughts. The foundations of this theoretical model are rooted in observing and mindfulness, and offer a blueprint for intentionally relating to thoughts and feelings in a healthier way. Within this framework, we can work towards looking at whats happening in your brain, rather than from whats happening in your brain.