LPC, 5 years of experience
On the surface, everything appears fine but you feel anxious at times. Relationships, stress, work and other responsibilities are piling up and you’re feeling stuck and overwhelmed. Perhaps you’re tired of overthinking, struggling with burnout or finding yourself people pleasing. Therapy is a collaborative process which allows us to look at areas in your life that cause distress, explore patterns, and identify ways to adjust your thoughts and behaviors to create positive change.
During our initial session, we will spend the time discussing what brings you to therapy and what you hope to get from our sessions together.
Whether your first time in therapy or not, beginning new can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to. To help put your mind at ease and answer questions you may have, I offer a free 20-minute virtual consultation for prospective clients. Get to know more about my practice and approach on my website.
I take a person-centered, evidence-based and trauma-informed approach. I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ clients and allies, helping people with issues related to identity, life transitions, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, existential crises, and the impacts of discrimination. Additionally, I offer EMDR for trauma and PTSD.
It's a treatment focusing on the body and how emotions appear within the body. Somatic therapies posit that our body holds and expresses experiences and emotions, and traumatic events or unresolved emotional issues can become 'trapped' inside.
Attachment-based therapy is a process-oriented form of counseling. The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions. An attachment-based approach to therapy looks at the connection between an infant’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers, usually with parents, and the infant’s ability to develop normally and ultimately form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult. Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that will help prevent or treat mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.
Gestalt therapy focuses on process (what is actually happening) over content (what is being talked about). The emphasis is on what is being done, thought, and felt at the present moment (the phenomenality of both client and therapist), rather than on what was, might be, could be, or should have been.