Learn more on my approach to therapy and healing:

What to Expect:

My therapeutic approach is rooted in creating a safe, nonjudgmental space for you as you process, work through, or identify various feelings, emotions, and patterns in your life. Many sessions start with reviewing the time between sessions, what stressors are presently coming up for you, and often connecting these back to bigger themes and/or your goals. This often looks like identifying what you might be feeling or needing in these areas, where they came from, or what barriers are coming up for you, together. 

❋ Relational Therapy

Relational therapy approach means I believe that through the therapeutic relationship we develop between each other and in fostering safety, nonjudgment, and unconditional positive regard you are able to identify and focus on how your relationships have shaped your self worth, self-esteem, and behaviors. I believe that moment of feeling seen and heard by someone you feel is authentically invested in your healing and growth can create a lot of positive change and awareness. 

❋ Psychodynamic Therapy

We focus on your unconscious mind, your past experiences, relationships and identifying messages, particularly developed in childhood and their influence on current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This is particularly helpful with attachment wounds. 

❋ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

REBT helps clients identify irrational beliefs and thoughts that cause emotional distress, shame, and self-defeating behaviors. It operates on an “ABC model” where activating events leads to a belief which in turn has a behavioral or emotional consequence. REBT promotes unconditional self-acceptance.

❋ Other Modalities

I was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approaches and sometimes pull from CBT, ACT, and DBT for specific interventions or coping skills. Please ask for more details.

Trainings I’m actively taking or pursuing…

  • Actively pursuing and continuing my knowledge, education, and skills to utilize for clients with ADHD.

  • Polyvagul theory is a theory often utilized for trauma work that explores how our nervous system responds to trauma, and the subjective nature of trauma in general through a neurobiology lens.

  • ERP is considered a gold standard of treatment for anxiety related disorders, especially OCD. The goal of ERP is to utilize in vivo, imaginal, interoceptive exposures to habituate you to whatever the core fear you have is, in small, supported, gradual steps. 

We're both two humans, coming together, trying to figure ________ out and find a better path towards healing, peace, and growth.