LMHC, 4 years of experience
New to Grow
Starting therapy can be overwhelming, whether for the first time ever or the first time in a while. Many of us have been shamed and dismissed for what we had to do to survive, even in therapy. My goal is to help you understand what your past taught you, and how you may be carrying these lessons in a way that no longer benefits you.
My ultimate goal in our work together is to help you find meaning and safety in connection gradually and at your own pace. Our first session will involve you telling me what you're hoping to get out of therapy and us coming up with a plan to work towards this together.
I view therapy as a process of reconnection and embracing our imperfectness. For some of us, this may sound impossible and terrifying. My goal is to help you gradually repair your relationship with yourself, finding safety with your body, your emotions, with food, and your relationships with others. This will include more action-based methods, such as expressive arts, psychodrama and somatic work, when words just don't do the trick, as well as exploring childhood experiences and attachment wounds. This will be mixed with learning coping skills and grounding techniques and sometimes simply talking things through, depending on what you need and what your current goals for therapy might be.
I am a licensed mental health counselor and I work with teenagers and adults who are working through disordered eating behaviors, body image distress, complex trauma/ PTSD, self-esteem challenges, relationship challenges, depression, anxiety, and all of the uncomfortable feelings that come with them.
have received training in psychodrama and somatic work. Use psychodrama, expressive arts, and somatic work for clients who find it challenging expressing emotions purely through talking.
use psychodynamic work to explore early childhood experiences and developmental trauma
process the "here-and-now" with clients, process what is coming up for the client, what is coming up in the room, how past experiences are resurfacing in the every day. empty chair exercise, letter-writing
help clients use skills for distress tolerance and emotional regulation especially those who are struggling with eating disorder behaviors and self-harm.