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Hope Ledding, LMFT - California Therapist at Grow Therapy

Hope Ledding

Hope Ledding

(she/her)

LMFT
6 years of experience
Authentic
Holistic
Warm
Virtual

Hello! I am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in California, providing individual therapy to adults of all ages facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, cultural and identity issues, and life transitions. I especially love working with young adults and folks who may be new to therapy. Some of my areas of interest include adult parent-child relationships, relational trauma, loneliness, spirituality, career development, identity development, friendship, dating, and relationship satisfaction. I welcome and affirm clients from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities, religions, and nationalities. Practicing cultural sensitivity and humility, and working through an anti-racist and social justice lens are cornerstones of my work. I’ve been in practice for 6 years, earning my Masters in Counseling Psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, and my Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. I love working with young adults in particular and have focused on this population for the past 4 years, working in the university and community college settings, serving primarily first-generation college students. I am passionate about and experienced in serving people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, especially Latinx, AAPI, Black/African-American, and multi-ethnic individuals.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

If we're a good fit to work together, you can expect to gain several benefits from our sessions: - Deeper insight, understanding and clarity about your situation. - Increased capacity to identify, work with, and feel your emotions. - A sense of relief and support in feeling understood, connected, and less alone. - New techniques and ideas you can apply to help you cope with difficult emotions. As a humanistic therapist, I believe that people are naturally inclined toward growth, given the right conditions. My job in session is to provide you with an environment of warmth, genuineness, and understanding that helps foster growth and change. This helps you locate and strengthen your own intuition, discover your strengths, and uncover solutions to the problems you’re facing. To get the best sense of what it would be like to work with me, be sure to scroll down to learn about my primary approaches to treatment below.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I am perceptive and insightful, and have a unique ability to make people feel truly seen and heard. My clients tell me that I ask great questions to help guide them through the therapy process, consider new perspectives, and achieve a deeper understanding about themselves. My communication style is honest and straightforward, while compassionate and respectful. I also try to make room for lightness and laughter in the therapy space.

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My treatment methods

Humanistic

When we work in this modality together, we’ll focus on increasing your awareness of your own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, often through attention to the present moment in therapy. This can include exploring aspects of our client-therapist relationship. As a humanistic therapist, I also appreciate the therapeutic value of using art - whether writing, poetry, music, film, drawing, etc. - to help us communicate our unique and shared human experiences and to cope with hardship.

Attachment-based

Using attachment theory, we can learn how your early childhood experiences with caregivers, family members, and others have shaped the way you experience yourself, others, and the world. In practice this could include observing and discussing patterns in your relationships (including in the client-therapist relationship), your communication style, your affective/emotional expression, and other behaviors. My role as a therapist will be to focus on highlighting and understanding the ways that you establish safety and trust as you navigate through your relationships and development, and areas where safety or trust were violated.

Polyvagal Therapy

Polyvagal theory is exceptional in its ability to remove shame and judgment from our experience in understanding the way we think, feel, and behave. It helps us normalize even those patterns that we may not like about ourselves, or that seem “wrong,” “unhealthy,” or “broken.” You’ll learn about the unconscious, automatic ways our nervous systems have adapted to try and protect us from danger, and get to know and work with your own nervous system’s responses. This modality is more body-based, and it is especially helpful in working with trauma.

Somatic

In somatic therapy, we direct our attention directly into the body, expanding our capacity to sense, perceive, and describe our direct felt experience. This means tapping into and observing our internal world of physical sensation and following its shifts and changes. As your therapist, I will help direct your attention into your body to find sources of self-soothing and process trauma stored in the body.