Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
About My Clients
Clients that I serve are working through past trauma, loss, and relationship struggles. I work with individual adults, couples, and family systems that are wanting to work through current issues and build on their relationship. Some are learning to communicate more effectively. Others are working through a major break in trust between partners. Some want to have a safe place where they can process difficult emotions and find deeper meaning in their lives.
My Background and Approach
I use emotion focused therapy techniques when working with couples. I use internal family systems, narrative therapy, and a solution oriented approach when working with individuals. What would this look like? During couples therapy sessions, I help partners to slow down the emotional cycles they find themselves stuck in. We examine patterns of interaction that lead to common experiences felt by each person. By slowing the process down and being able to acknowledge, support, and validate our partners experience, we learn how to show up for our partners more consistently in the way they need it. Emotion focused therapy approaches adult relationships from an attachment lens, meaning that our past relationships shape the way we relate to others now. During individual therapy sessions, I help clients identify “parts” of themselves that are stuck in past emotional experiences. We spend time discussing parts that show up in different contexts and examine the roles they hold.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I largely subscribe to a humanistic counseling philosophy. I believe that people naturally strive to be their best and that everyone has the potential to live a healthy and productive life in order to find true meaning and purpose. Because of this, I seek to form an authentic connection based upon genuine empathy for my clients. Within this relationship I offer a safe place for us to explore your emotions, worldview, values, and the past experiences that brought you to hold these. Through this, it is my hope that I can help you with whatever your goals may be and help you find the answers that are needed for real progress in your life.