I am a therapist specializing in supporting women through trauma, emotional challenges, and family dynamics. My practice focuses on helping women heal from the impacts of childhood trauma, family conflict, and experiences like abuse. I aim to guide clients through their emotional journeys, providing them with the tools to process past trauma, improve their mental health, and build healthier relationships, especially with family members and themselves.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In the first session, clients can expect a welcoming and non-judgmental space where we will discuss their concerns and establish goals for therapy. I will assess their emotional needs, explore the impact of past experiences on their current well-being, and begin to understand the dynamics within their family or relationships. We will collaboratively determine a treatment plan tailored to their goals and explore how we can work together toward healing and growth.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strengths as a provider are my empathy, active listening skills, and my ability to create a safe space for clients to be vulnerable. I am deeply committed to understanding each client's unique experience, especially with trauma, and I strive to empower them with actionable tools to improve their emotional health.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I work with women facing emotional distress tied to trauma, family dysfunction, and unresolved issues impacting their mental health. My ideal clients include those dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, mood regulation, and relationship challenges stemming from family dynamics. I also work with those navigating the transition to motherhood or parenthood, helping them break generational cycles of trauma and build healthier emotional responses.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT helps clients identify and reframe negative thought patterns that arise from trauma, such as those tied to family dynamics, abuse, or secrecy. It helps them understand how their thoughts influence their emotional responses and behaviors, such as displacing feelings onto others or experiencing anxiety or depression. Through CBT, clients learn to challenge these negative beliefs and develop healthier coping mechanisms, managing stress and emotions more effectively. CBT also aids in breaking unhelpful cycles that may have been carried into adulthood or parenthood.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy explores how unresolved conflicts and childhood experiences, such as abuse or unhealthy family dynamics, shape current emotional responses. By bringing unconscious memories and feelings to the surface, clients can understand the root causes of their behaviors, like stress, anxiety, or intense moods, and how they might be impacting relationships with family, friends, or partners. This insight can lead to emotional relief, as clients work through the unresolved trauma and break dysfunctional cycles, improving emotional regulation and stress management.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-focused therapy helps clients concentrate on their strengths and resources to find practical solutions to the challenges they face. In the context of trauma, this approach empowers clients to set goals for healing and breaking negative cycles within their family dynamics, such as overcoming the impact of childhood abuse or the emotional burdens of family secrets. By focusing on achievable steps, clients can manage anxiety, depression, and stress, and take control of their healing process—whether they are in college, becoming parents, or seeking to break harmful generational patterns.
Narrative
Narrative therapy enables clients to reframe and rewrite the story they tell about themselves. In cases of trauma from family dynamics or abuse, this therapy helps clients separate themselves from their trauma and reframe it in a way that is empowering. Clients can explore how family roles, secrets, and emotional responses have shaped their current identity and behaviors. By rewriting their narrative, clients can heal from the trauma stored in their bodies and reclaim their sense of agency, especially in the context of parenthood or breaking cycles before starting a family. This process helps clients heal from past wounds, alleviate emotional burdens, and build healthier relationships.