PSYCHOTHERAPY

Therapy is a valuable way to care for yourself and gain insight into your inner world. Perhaps you have been struggling alone and have found yourself not living your life as you want. Maybe you desire to make sense of early experiences and relationships and discover how they affect you in your adult life, or maybe you are simply feeling stuck. Together we will identify your goals and work collaboratively to create a plan to reach them. Clients often find therapy to be helpful in dealing with issues like anxiety, stress, boundary setting, gender and sexuality exploration, familial conflict, life transitions, etc. You can find a list of my specialties here.

I work from a contemporary psychodynamic/relational approach to talk therapy. In other words, the past shapes the present. Early life experiences and relationships affect how we move through the world as adults. Through insight-oriented exploration, we can discover recurring patterns in your thoughts, experiences, and relationships – even how you relate to me as your therapist and your relationships outside therapy. I also work from a humanistic approach, which means I place emphasis on an individual’s positive traits and behaviors to find growth, healing, and fulfillment and to reduce the level of incongruence between the ideal and actual self. Other modalities I draw from are Parts Work (Internal Family Systems) and Attachment Theory, as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) when appropriate.

I see all of my work with clients through a trauma-informed lens. Trauma-informed therapy acknowledges the impact of past experiences on present well-being, offering a compassionate approach that honors each person's resilience, strengths, and healing journey.