Therapeutic Approach
I view therapy as a collaborative effort between the client (the person receiving services) and the therapist. You are coming to this space with a desire to work on yourself- maybe to heal, or grow- with all your strengths, as well as the challenges you are facing. I bring to our sessions a warm, respectful, and clinically experienced approach that recognizes your inherent worth and capacity to heal. Together, we will work to explore, understand, and support your healing journey.
I view therapy as a collaborative effort between the client (the person receiving services) and the therapist. You are coming to this space with a desire to work on yourself- maybe to heal, or grow- with all your strengths, as well as the challenges you are facing. I bring to our sessions a warm, respectful, and clinically experienced approach that recognizes your inherent worth and capacity to heal. Together, we will work to explore, understand, and support your healing journey.
Humor, openness, courage, curiosity and self-compassion are necessary- and just as powerful- as cognitive-behavioral exercises, neuro-biology, mindfulness techniques, and medicine. In our work together, we will call on all of these and more, as needed. I have more than a decade of experience, which has taught me that using a holistic approach works best to address the complex needs and experiences of human beings. Part of this practice is that we honor our own innate healing wisdom, from mind, body, and spirit. Practically, what that looks like for your individual treatment working with me is that I borrow from a number of different therapeutic modalities where appropriate, including, but not limited to:
Cognitive Behavioral TherapyMotivational InterviewingAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Mindful Self-CompassionInternal Family Systems (IFS or "Parts Work")Sex TherapySomatic Experiencing Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT)/ Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAT)Humor, openness, courage, curiosity and self-compassion are necessary- and just as powerful- as cognitive-behavioral exercises, neuro-biology, mindfulness techniques, and medicine. In our work together, we will call on all of these and more, as needed. I have more than a decade of experience, which has taught me that using a holistic approach works best to address the complex needs and experiences of human beings. Part of this practice is that we honor our own innate healing wisdom, from mind, body, and spirit. Practically, what that looks like for your individual treatment working with me is that I borrow from a number of different therapeutic modalities where appropriate, including, but not limited to:
Each of these has a time and a place where it may be helpful to weave into our work, depending on the needs and challenges of a client. Not every therapeutic intervention is a good fit for a given person, and we may need to try a few things to find the right mix for your needs.
Each of these has a time and a place where it may be helpful to weave into our work, depending on the needs and challenges of a client. Not every therapeutic intervention is a good fit for a given person, and we may need to try a few things to find the right mix for your needs.
In my life and work, I warmly welcome LGBTQIA+ folks, as well as straight folks, and I am strongly sex positive, kink positive, and poly affirming. I believe that pleasure is one of our birth rights as human beings. I work to maintain cultural humility and I support health at every size and in every ability, and I have seen the ways in which, too often, not being listened to, believed, or supported in one's lived experiences exacerbates the harm we have already endured. I am a pro-choice therapist, and I hold space for the complexity of grief in having to choose different reproductive experiences than what one wished for. I embrace that families come into being in a variety of ways, many of them chosen rather than biological. I believe in the inherent worth and dignity of all people, regardless of their education, socio-economic status, faith, spiritual practice, agnosticism or atheism, race or ethnicity.
In my life and work, I warmly welcome LGBTQIA+ folks, as well as straight folks, and I am strongly sex positive, kink positive, and poly affirming. I believe that pleasure is one of our birth rights as human beings. I work to maintain cultural humility and I support health at every size and in every ability, and I have seen the ways in which, too often, not being listened to, believed, or supported in one's lived experiences exacerbates the harm we have already endured. I am a pro-choice therapist, and I hold space for the complexity of grief in having to choose different reproductive experiences than what one wished for. I embrace that families come into being in a variety of ways, many of them chosen rather than biological. I believe in the inherent worth and dignity of all people, regardless of their education, socio-economic status, faith, spiritual practice, agnosticism or atheism, race or ethnicity.
All people deserve access to compassionate and supportive care, and there are many ways to access what care is most appropriate for your needs-- I may be the right therapist for you, or not. If you aren't sure, please reach out for a free consultation and we can try to find out, together. I am also happy to help you refine your search, if this space doesn't meet your needs.
All people deserve access to compassionate and supportive care, and there are many ways to access what care is most appropriate for your needs-- I may be the right therapist for you, or not. If you aren't sure, please reach out for a free consultation and we can try to find out, together. I am also happy to help you refine your search, if this space doesn't meet your needs.