At this time, I am choosing to work only with Individual men, men of color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community - ***including those questioning*** Our first understanding of ourselves comes from the first people we know. From there, the other relationships we participate in tend to reflect those aspects of ourselves previously learned. I specialize in successfully treating the presenting symptoms of childhood trauma. Including and often self-limiting: substance abuse, social and intrapersonal anxieties, clinical, situational and abandonment depression, and the often self-sabotaging and socially unacceptable yet still ubiquitous unresolved rage. As a California and Arizona Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, I am privileged to work with a variety of highly intelligent and uniquely talented people, who, due to a lifetime of psychological, spiritual and philosophical pain are often the last to be aware of their authenticity as their true value. The kind of pain that breeds overwhelming feelings of anxiety & depression; encourages thoughts of confusion & discourages the truth in one’s potential or abilities. All of which lends itself toward self-destructive behaviors that double down as “proof” of our unworthiness.
In our first session together, you can expect that I will provide active and empathic listening. In order to establish and build rapport and trust, I will attempt to communicate and establish meaning (or interpret) what you discuss throughout the session. I may also provide psycho-education to you regarding the potential origin of your presenting problem.
Depending on the kind (or unkind) of education you experienced, truly knowing yourself may still be lost to you. Utilizing a professional yet still emotionally intimate relationship established between you and I, can provide real-world support to you as you do the internal work for yourself, w/yourself AND without feeling that you have to do it all by yourself. Alone.
AEDP psychotherapy is an approach that seeks to alleviate patients’ psychological suffering by helping them process the overwhelming emotions associated with trauma in a way that facilitates corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize positive changes in our neuroplastic brains.
Using the relationship between therapist and client, we explore how your childhood experiences might impact your ability to form meaningful bonds as an adult.
Using the relationship established between you and I, I can provide feedback that can show you and support how it is for you to be in relationship with others.
Psychoeducation is a therapy intervention that involves the therapist providing their client with information about their diagnosis, symptoms, or the method of treatment used. It is more than simply sharing information with the client; psychoeducation refers to a structured and specific method of providing knowledge.