How I Practice

Therapy is an opportunity to deepen your understanding and acceptance of yourself. It looks and feels different with each client, because each person has a unique inner world and way of expressing themselves. In my experience, symptoms diminish, emotional distress decreases, and growth continues when clients can talk openly and honestly about their lives and feel their way through their struggles with someone who is emotionally available and empathetic.

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While therapy with me can include structure, it is typically exploratory — we follow what's alive in the moment, unpacking patterns you might not yet have words for. Alongside this, I'm attentive to the thoughts and beliefs we carry about ourselves and the world, and how they shape what we feel and do — the goal being more freedom and awareness in how you think, feel, and live.

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I'm also attentive to how our early close relationships shape the way we see ourselves and relate to others — patterns that keep showing up today with partners, friends, children, and colleagues. The relationship between us in therapy becomes a place to notice these patterns directly, and to reflect on the ways we've learned to protect ourselves after being hurt.

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We’re composed of many parts and are rarely just one thing: part of you may be reaching for something new, while another part stays anchored to what's known. Getting to know protective or “defensive” parts of us can help us understand how they may both serve and limit us. Healing tends to come not from fighting with exiling our wounded or defensive parts, but from building a better relationship between these different sides of you.
 

 

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Therapy is an opportunity to:

• Speak freely & explore what’s on your mind

• Heal from trauma

• Know yourself more deeply

• Connect with yourself

• Be taken care of

• Learn to care for yourself

• Enhance communication

• Build healthy relationships

• Explore your needs, wants, & wishes

• Alleviate emotional suffering

• Clarify ideas and goals

• Manage alcohol or drug use

• Explore struggles with sexuality & gender identity

• Get help with decision making​