I view therapy as a co-collaborative relationship. What we focus on, how often we meet, and how long we work together; those are decisions we make with your input at the center. I bring training and clinical experience, but you know your life better than I do, and you stay in the driver's seat.
A good therapeutic relationship gives you somewhere to feel steady, seen, and safe enough to actually do the work of healing and change.
Growth asks something of you; courage, staying power, and real emotional effort. I don't take that lightly.
Therapy gives you room to look honestly at your life: to grieve, to take stock of your relationships, to find new ways of getting your needs met, and to build a fuller sense of well-being.
So much of how we think, feel, and react gets wired in childhood. Looking back isn't about dwelling in the past; it's often the fastest route to understanding what's happening in your present, and to building the future you actually want.
Therapy can help you see the beliefs and patterns quietly running the show; many of them are old survival strategies. They made sense once; they helped you get through something. But strategies built for an unsafe or overwhelming past can end up working against you in a present that's actually safe.
Every person carries inherent worth, built out of their own experiences and their own strengths; not despite what they've been through, but often because of how they've moved through it.
We're not just minds. Well-being touches the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual; and tending to only one or two rarely gets you all the way there.
My Therapy Philosphy
I see myself as a collaborator, not an authority; someone walking alongside you as we notice patterns and build change together, with you leading.
I work with a systemic, relational lens; paying attention to how the systems and relationships around you have shaped you, and treating our relationship as part of the healing itself.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) shapes a lot of my work; helping you build curiosity toward the different parts of yourself, including the ones carrying old pain and the ones working overtime to protect you from feeling it again.
I also bring in a trauma-informed, narrative'-based, relational, and somatic lens; moving between them based on what the moment calls for.
Clients bring me a wide range of things: relational and identity struggles, anxiety, PTSD, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma recovery.
My Approach
Trauma (big or small) can get in the way of the body's own capacity to heal. A lot of this work is identifying what's blocking that process and clearing the path.
Trauma often lives in a part of the brain language can't reach. That's why it can show up as body sensations or feelings that don't come with a story attached; hard to explain, hard to place.
Most of the trauma people carry happened inside relationships. It makes sense, then, that healing often happens the same way; inside a relationship built for exactly that.
On Trauma
I believe that all people reveal the Image of God and are uniquely valuable. Spiritual health is interconnected with our physical, mental, emotional and relational health. I provide an environment that is influenced both by professional and faith-centered values. I understand that many people have been hurt and abused in religious contexts and I hope to provide a safe place to heal from those wounds. This is a safe place to explore various beliefs and experiences. I enjoy working with clients from various faith perspectives.
I believe in the power of love, hope and faith to redeem our pain.
Integration of Spirituality
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