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Psychotherapy is an exercise in reparenting, which is essentially the act of giving yourself what you didn’t receive as a child. It is a safe space to reflect on old wounding and patterns that may be disrupting your life so that you can repair and adopt new ways of relating to the world. Clients who work with me often feel a restored sense of agency and an ability to reclaim the life they have always envisioned for themselves.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
In one-on-one sessions, we explore your unique challenges, goals, and aspirations. We delve into your past experiences, current patterns, and belief systems to gain insights and develop new perspectives. Through personalized interventions and collaborative exploration, we work towards fostering personal growth, healing, and transformation.
COUPLES THERAPY
Relationships are often a mirror and as such, a reflection of unresolved wounding within ourselves that can be triggered by another. I see couples therapy as an opportunity to not only deepen the relationship with your partner but also with yourself. Utilizing an attachment based lens, we will focus on gaining a better understanding of learned patterns and the familiar “dance" that frequently plays out between the two of you. Together, will also develop new ways of relating, behaving and communicating with one another in an effort to build a more fulfilling partnership.
We’re a good fit if you struggle with…
Being the helper who struggles to ask for help
Discomfort with being seen, feeling heard and taking up space
Perfectionism
Self abandonment for fear of being alone (codependency, unhealthy interpersonal relationships)
Prioritizing others' needs before your own
Self sabotaging behaviors
Saying ‘yes’ to things you don’t really want to do
The mother wound
Complex childhood trauma
Struggling to let go of control
Identity crisis and exploration
Life transitions, burnout, and goals
Anxiety and depression
Intellectualizing (difficulty feeling feelings)
Clients that I have worked with have shown increased self-awareness, enhanced emotional well-being, improved relationships, and a greater sense of fulfillment.
They often find that they can trust themselves more, maintain healthier boundaries, feel more aligned with their values and desires, and experience greater overall satisfaction. They also develop tools and coping strategies to manage life stressors, build resilience, and navigate challenges with increased confidence and self-assurance.
My hope for you is a life with:
Less struggle, more ease.
Less chaos, more peace.
Less striving, more contentment.
Less productivity, more play.
Less control, more surrender.
the therapeutic process:
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Learn to identify and express your emotions
Increased awareness of triggers and feeling equipped to handle them when they arise
Redefine relationship with conditioning and survival mechanisms
Heal and re-wire neural pathways
Develop greater self trust and trust with others
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Enhance your ability to manage daily stressors
Establish and maintain healthy boundaries
Recognize and honor your emotional resources and knowing when they are depleted
Discover how to meet your own needs
Be open to and excited for new opportunities
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Transform self criticism into self compassion
Practice the pause
Cultivate and sustain embodied safety
Develop new and healthy habits and ways of relating to your environment
Feel educated, empowered and able to soothe your nervous system
My approach
At the core of my practice is listening attentively and maintaining a stance of curiosity with the intention of each client feeling understood, seen and heard.
My approach can be described as down to earth and direct. Balancing warmth with authenticity, I gently challenge clients when it is appropriate and helpful but do so in a way that prioritizes emotional safety. I also utilize an eclectic approach, drawing from a variety of modalities with strong emphasis on those that are trauma informed.
MODALITIES
Internal Family Systems
“IFS is a transformative tool that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.” - IFS institute
Experience increased confidence, compassion, calmness, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness.
Get to know, understand and befriend different parts of yourself.
Find a way to communicate to the deepest most vulnerable parts of ourselves and how to re-contextualize painful feelings.
EMDR
“EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences.” -Maxfield, 2019
Uncover and eliminate unconscious barriers that hinder personal growth
Break free from repetitive patterns that no longer serve you
Release stored trauma within the body and experience reduction in triggers/activation
OTHER THERAPIES:
Psychodynamic Therapy
Trauma Therapy
Relational
Interpersonal Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Attachment-based therapy
Trauma Therapy
Inner Child Work
Shadow Work
Somatic Therapy
Strengths Based
Solution Focused Therapy
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
-Carl Jung