Services
- Individual
About My Clients
If you're feeling overburdened with difficult thoughts and emotions, overwhelmed by self judgment and criticism, experience ruminating, excessive worry, are feeling numb or "frozen", or have low motivation to engage in things, even those you typically find pleasurable, you are not alone! I can offer support and tools to help you experience the world and your emotions differently to help you get closer to living the life you want without the need to distract or avoid from painful emotions.
My Background and Approach
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specialized in working with young professionals who are looking to move beyond the need to distract from or avoid difficult emotional experiences and feel more emotionally regulated. I offer a warm and compassionate space for my clients to gain skills in becoming mindfully aware of what they are thinking and feeling, gain insight into how these internal experiences influence their behaviors and relationships, and build methods of coping that are in line with their personal strengths and values. I offer clinical expertise and guidance as you process emotional traumas and injuries, and support as you learn to increase your capacity for experiencing any emotion. When working with me, I provide guidance in identifying behaviors and ways of thinking that may no longer be serving you in order to build a set of alternate coping mechanisms and strategies based on your personal values and strengths.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Because humans, like all other living beings, are primed for survival, I believe that all coping mechanisms, including the tendency to avoid, is a way of maintaining a sense of safety. As it goes, sometimes the mechanisms we engage in to help keep us feeling safe cause us greater harm in the long run. We can get caught in cycles of avoidance and our systems begin to confuse pain or discomfort with lack of safety. This in turn can lead to emotional avoidance, and can cause secondary and tertiary pain. I believe that by increasing our capacity for pain and discomfort, we also increase our capacity for experiencing any and all emotions, and can learn how to value and honor our emotions as opportunities to connect to and learn from our internal experiences.