LCSW, 10 years of experience
New to Grow
I am a therapist with 10 years of experience. I seek to create a warm and welcoming space for my clients and specialize in working with adults who are navigating trauma or anxiety. I use a blend of modalities, such as IFS, EMDR, DBT, and brainspotting. to help the people I work with feel heard and facilitate their process of healing.
In our first session we focus on getting to know each other. I want to understand your experiences and what it would mean if therapy were actually helpful. I also want you to feel comfortable with me, as this is the foundation for any meaningful change in therapy. We explore you current situation as well as how your past might relate, then discuss what you want your future to look like. My biggest goal in the first session is for ALL parts of you to feel seen.
My strengths include the ability to center the person Im working with. While I have in-depth training in several evidence based modalities, building a relationship with my clients is most important to me. I help my clients understand themselves and experiences better in order to live the lives they want to live.
I work with adults who are trying to find a sense of calm confidence or work through difficult past experiences. Most clients I work with have had experiences earlier in life that continue to impact them today. I enjoy working with clients who have often felt different from others or who have struggled to fit in. Maybe you have tried talk therapy before and just didn't find it as effective as you had hoped. That often means a different approach (like brain spotting or EMDR) could be helpful.
I use brain spotting in an integrative way, meaning Im usually combining this with other modalities like IFS. Brain spotting is a bottom up approach and is like a focused mindfulness exercise. It helps process difficult or traumatic events in order to heal from them.
CBT is woven through most of my session in an informal way. We are often exploring how your thoughts, feelings and experiences relate to one another. This can help build insight and set the stage for deeper work.
I've found that in most modalities I use, mindfulness is a central theme. When we hold ourselves and our experiences in compassion we can heal the parts of us that are hurt.
IFS helps us explore different parts of ourselves that are usually formed through experience. It's a way to deepen our understanding of ourselves and help feel the feelings in order to move through them.
EMDR is helpful to help heal from self limiting beliefs and experiences that continue o hold us back, which are often traumatic.