CLIENT-CENTERED APPROACH:

I believe we are remarkable, unique beings capable of deep healing and growth. We’re each born with an authentic Core Self, but early on, we learn that our authentic expression doesn’t always get our needs met. So we develop protective patterns instead: ways of coping that keep us safe, but that leave the underlying emotions unprocessed. As adults, those old protections get harder to maintain. The core emotions we never learned to feel start pushing through, and it takes increasingly unhealthy strategies to keep them at bay.

Often, clients come to me because talk therapy or intellectualizing hasn’t worked, and they’re eager to find lasting change. I like to say that many talk therapies function like a Band-Aid - effective for a while, but needing constant replacement. What the wound actually needs is to heal the underlying infection. That’s where I come in.

I move toward my clients with curiosity and compassion, so that together we can unravel the ways healing becomes possible. I’m interested in how my clients connect with their present experience, and I invite that awareness to guide us toward the memories, beliefs, and patterns that no longer serve them. From there, they can learn new, healthier ways of being and step into the kind of authentic living that healing makes possible.

THEORETICAL ORIENTATION:

I approach therapy through an integrative, anti-oppressive, experiential framework. Depending on my client’s needs, I draw on a range of methodologies, including AEDP and the Triangle of Change, Hakomi and the principles of Mindfulness, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic Experiencing, Attachment/SIMBS theory, Nonviolent Communication, Psychodynamic Theory, Relational Theory, Internal Family Systems principles, Trauma-Informed practices, Transpersonal Theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Gestalt.

I am currently a Level 1 AEDP therapist, actively working toward full AEDP certification. I have also completed Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Module 1, META Primary Attachment Psychotherapy, and the first of a two-part EMDR training.