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Hi! I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working with various types of people struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, anger, relationships, and life stressors. I focus on helping you increase your understanding of how to better your life, while creating a compassionate, trusting, and safe space where you can explore your goals with ease. I believe together we will find new ways to enhance your life and move through your struggles in more helpful ways.
In our first session you can expect to explore your unique struggles that bring you to therapy and identify goals to focus on during our time together. In a welcoming and respectful space, we will collaborate on what approach will be the best fit to help you reach your goals. We can go at your pace, starting slow or diving into the things that you need support around while working towards establishing trust and safety together. Starting in our first session and throughout the course of therapy, we will explore what makes you, you, by talking about all areas of your life, not only the suffering you might be experiencing.
Having supported those touched by trauma, stress, and life’s suffering, I have gained understanding and empathy for the human struggle and still find ways to embrace life and manage through the pain and suffering. I value the ability to sit with others through their process of healing, growing, and managing their problems better, while providing a trusted space to express themselves openly. I feel everyone deserves a place they feel supported, receive mutual respect, and can contribute to their therapy experience.
I love working with adults who are facing barriers in relationships, communication, navigating conflict, life stressors, family difficulties or individual problems who want to work towards a more thriving life. If your stress and relationships have become unmanageable and you want to build your skills and knowledge to feel better, we would be a great fit. I want to help you work on handling difficulties in a more fulfilling way.
Trauma Informed Care
I have been utilizing Trauma Informed Care for years as a framework to support all clients who I may see because trauma tends to show up in our lives in some way. I will guide you in achieving your unique goals through an informed lens of how trauma may act your struggles. I use Trauma informed care to help me create a trustworthy and safe space, where we will collaborate on your goals, build on decision making, and empower you to manage trauma.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is effective with a range of difficulties you might be facing. CBT aims to help you to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and learn practical self-help strategies. I use CBT to build your understanding of how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your feelings and actions. This method often includes items to complete outside of session to help you to build on skills and understanding.
Relational
Relational therapy aims to increase your satisfying relationships with others, and believes this is necessary for your emotional well-being and can create many barriers to your happiness. I use this belief to help you create more fulfilling relationships with youreself and others.
Humanistic
Humanistic theory works with an assumption that every human has their own unique thoughts, experiences and ways of viewing the world and encourages exploring this in therapy. There is a focus on intently listening and collaborating with you each session to fully grasp your concerns, feelings and goals.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-focused therapy helps me focus on your future while achieving goals by collaborating on how to solve problems. I use this treatment to look at how your strengths can support your goals and help you take steps towards managing your individual needs.