LCSW, 17 years of experience
I’d like to offer you a non-judgmental space to explore behaviors, beliefs and feelings that keep you from living the life you want to live. You are not broken and I would be honored to help you reconnect to the innate wisdom and power of your authentic self. My experience includes 15+ years treating substance use disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression in outpatient and inpatient settings. I also specialize in sex and relationships issues with singles and couples, including within non-traditional relationship structures. I work from a strength-based, egalitarian perspective, using a social justice, anti-oppression lens.
We start with a careful assessment of your history, strengths and challenges, and goals for therapy. We'll consider if you prefer action-oriented therapy or are looking more for a space to process difficult emotions, or both, considering various modalities. Then we collaborate on a treatment plan that serves as a map throughout our work together and that can be adjusted as needed.
I am genuinely curious and honored to work with my clients. I can adapt my style to suit them (for example, being able to process through intense emotions while at other times making action plans) and often see potential and a way forward where they may not see it (yet). My style is real, warm and respectful of their choices.
I love working with people who are sensitive and may struggle with anxiety due to work stress, relationship issues, and identifying and communicating their needs, even if they appear to have it all together on the outside.
If you get stuck in lots of rumination and negative, anxious thinking we can tackle that with CBT, an evidence-based therapy to address these issues.
I pay close attention to your emotions as they guide us to what is important, so all emotions are welcome in therapy.
Somatic therapy means we'll incorporate the way your emotions affect how your body feels or find a way to help you safely attune to your body if you tend to feel numb.
This is a trauma processing technique where we use eye positions to process through traumatic events so that they no longer activate intense emotional responses from you. It doesn't have to involve talking about the trauma.
You are not just your diagnosis and I love finding your strengths so we can build on them. Empowerment is key in helping you heal.