Services
About My Clients
I work primarily with children, teens, and young adults experiencing anxiety and depression, often resulting from significant life transitions such as moving, graduating, or going to college, especially with international students. I help clients explore their situations and find their own path forward when they feel lost and confused. I also provide specific skills training that help deal with distress tolerance, anxiety, panic, and suicidal ideation.
My Background and Approach
I have a client-centered style focused on providing an unconditionally positive environment with no judgment. I believe that through trust we can earn respect, and through collaboration we receive healing. I use a combination of Gestalt and Psychodynamic approaches to help clients learn more about the tensions and conflicts within themselves, and to learn how to externalize them. I use a mix of Existential and Person-centered approaches to help clients understand themselves in the context of their life, and to map out different possibilities. These paths will present themselves as alternatives that will help them through their current concerns. For specific clients, I also use behavioral skills training based in DBT to help clients lower their distress, to help them build up more tolerance and learn to identify triggers so they can reduce their anxiety and pain.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe in the innate human right for all individuals to live in peace and without pain. I have a degree in Human Rights studies from the University of Chicago and I am socially active in advocating for human rights, both locally and internationally. I am especially concerned about the well-being of migrants and refugees, a population that I specialize in working with. I believe in the diversity of the human experience, that all are valid with respect to culture and origin. I always integrate anti-racist, anti-sexist/transphobic practices into my work, and always maintain multicultural awareness.