LMFT, 15 years of experience
Are you curious about the impact of your past on your present? Are you curious about your relationship patterns and choices? Do you often feel misunderstood or invalidated? Do you feel seen and valued for who and how you are? Are you interested in desire, liberation and an expansion of your worldview? I have deep, personal connections to these pathways of inquiry and reflection and am interested in engaging in this work with others. I am a psychotherapist who is passionately committed to individual, collective and community wellness. I believe that relationships are the site of both injury and transformation. Our relationship will provide a space for connection, safety and recovery. I work from a person and culture centered, psychodynamic/depth perspective and understand suffering as trans-generational, racial, cultural and personal/interpersonal. I approach "problems" as ineffective solutions or "symptoms" as expressing what we cannot with words. Our work will be to locate those words. And speak them.
My availability may seem limited, but if you would like to explore scheduling with me, please reach out over email and we can collaborate to hopefully find a time that works for both of us! Aimeemarmata@gmail.com
Treatment methods and tools are very individualized.I do have a basic relational, psychodynamic approach, which means that I believe in the Unconscious and that early experience shapes our subjectivity, or sense of self in relation to others. While this is the very general treatment frame, I also utilize practical, skill oriented, life enhancing treatment tools such as mindfulness based stress reduction, wellness and recovery action planning, a focus on identifying and accessing ancillary community resources. I use an integrated, trauma informed and developmental lens to attune to somatic and physiological corroborations with limiting belief systems, overvalued ideas and negatively reinforcing self- narratives.
I often work well with folks who have not had a positive or effective experience with therapy in the past or are dubious about psychotherapy in general. There are many barriers to therapeutic change and these barriers are often on the side of the therapist, not the client, who is often blamed for it. I worked well with folks that have been pathologized, socially ostracized, sexually villianized, racialally criminalized and harmed by institutional white supremacy .
Adolescents (over 13), transitional age youth (18-24) and adults Folx with intersecting identities
2 ratings with written reviews
May 14, 2025
I honestly feel like I won the therapist lottery with her. She makes me feel seen, she makes me feel heard. I didn't think I would ever be able to heal from many of the things I've experienced. I didn't think I would ever feel different from the constant lows and feeling so distant from everything. It didn't happen over night and it has taken so much work, but she has been there every step of the way. Being well takes work, but I know now that I can do it and I want to keep being well! :)
May 8, 2025
Aimee has such an amazing way of empowering you to be the best version of yourself, has amazing resources, and is just so kind and really hears you out! I've seen so much progress in my own personal growth since I started therapy sessions with Aimee. An awesome person all around!