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About My Clients
I work with people who are ready to change but unsure how—ready to be more awake and less stuck, ready to experiment, to find things out, to let things go. Maybe you’ve already been trying, maybe for a long time. It seems like you “have it together,” but it doesn’t feel that way inside. Or maybe you don’t know what together could even be. Something isn’t right, but you don’t know what or why. What do you want your life to be like? Have you been able to let yourself know? Do you want to find out?
My Background and Approach
I work with people because life is hard, and I know how hard it can be. More than that, though, I work with people because life is beautiful and I know how beautiful it can be. Healing and growth can be a joyful process. That doesn’t mean it won’t be hard, or that therapy with me is all arts and crafts and vision boards. It’s not! It does mean we’ll probably laugh sometimes, that we’ll play with ways of working to find out what resonates with you and your body. We might make some pictures, get up and move around. We might sit and talk. We might walk. We’ll figure this out together, at the pace of your nervous system. A lot of us find it difficult to be on our own side. I will be here in your corner, helping you find ways to be there too. Therapy can’t make life not hard, but it can help you explore how to accept, shift, and live alongside the challenges. We’ll work to widen your sense of choice and agency, so you don’t feel like a passenger in your own life.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
The stories we tell ourselves influence the shape our lives are able to take. We learn these stories from society, from the people we love, from our own efforts to adapt and survive. In therapy, we gently work with these stories—the ones you’re already aware of, and the ones your body holds for you without you having to notice. We play with and expand the helpful stories, and revise some that served to protect you at some point but aren’t so helpful anymore. We don’t get hurt or come to feel like Too Much or Not Enough on our own. It happens through living and relating. We don’t heal alone, either. Some healing may be private, but it is often through and in connection with others that we find our way back to our selves. I will be a steady presence, joining you in your projects of healing and change. Because connection is so vital, I encourage group therapy—in one of my groups or elsewhere—as a powerful way to practice seeing and being seen, finding resonance and support with others.