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About My Clients
I often see clients who are struggling to cope with a world that is too much and not enough at the same time. Do terms like burnout, perfectionism, stress, anxiety, high sensitivity, and sensory challenges describe part of your experience? Are you looking to dive into deep, meaningful long-term work that may lead to increased self-awareness, acceptance, and improved ways of coping, thus allowing you to move through the world with more ease and freedom? Then you and I might work well together!
My Background and Approach
What lights me up is people being their most authentic selves - standing in their power, being true to themselves, and developing deep, connected, and caring relationships with themselves and others. My approach to therapy is client-centered, collaborative, affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally humble. I work from an intersectional and holistic lens that considers all of who you are and your lived experience in today’s world. In order to foster a therapeutic relationship that is safe and trustworthy, I make it my priority to engage in on-going self-reflection and learning, and frequently elicit your feedback. During sessions, I integrate a variety of therapeutic modalities to ensure that we can work together in a way that best supports your unique needs and goals. These include Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy, Experiential/Somatic Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Both my studies and my work are strongly influenced by social justice, anti-racist, anti-oppression, and liberation frameworks. I continually engage in self-reflection and internal work in order to challenge biases and oppressive narratives I have internalized growing up within our current system. As a white, cis-het, middle class woman I am aware of the many privileges I hold, and this awareness informs my practice in the following ways: 1. I believe you are the expert on your own lived experience. 2. I practice radical openness, curiosity, and honesty, and try my best to take responsibility for any reactions that are triggered within me. 3. I believe in the necessity of intrapersonal, interpersonal, inter-cultural, and inter-racial reparations and repair, and in allowing survivors of oppressive systems to lead the conversation on what this can look like.