My Therapeutic Philosophy
I am grounded in the roots of existential psychotherapy and strive to form a genuine, compassionate, and non-judgmental therapeutic bond within my space. My approach focuses on encouraging, challenging, and validating your journey through talk therapy and providing essential tools for values building and maintenance, strengthening your communication with others and yourself, and celebrating earned goals and creating milestones for your future. By examining and evaluating your lived world and critically reflecting on your experiences, you can take intentional actions toward a deeply connected sense of self and well-being.
I place great importance on our abilities to co-create our worlds and relationships. My approach focuses on building a space of trust and understanding to allow you to explore and strengthen your mental health and wellness. I will initiate critical thinking in areas of identifying your values and needs, and encourage continual building of an active self through actions and compassionate reflections. By examining and evaluating your lived world and critically reflecting on your experiences, you can take intentional steps toward a deeply connected sense of self and well-being.
I work with children aged 6+ and use a combination of play, art, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies to alleviate symptoms of anxious or depressive thoughts and feelings, low self-esteem, emotional dysregulation, familial conflict, bullying, and difficulty with building and maintaining friendships.
I welcome collaboration with the family through periodic check-ins and combined sessions to foster a welcoming space for healthier thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Children grow in their environments, so the more compassionate and consistent care we can provide, the better the environment for healthy maturation and resilience for your child!
My work with teens focuses on building coping and regulation skills, creating and evaluating healthy friendships and boundaries, and creating life goals and aspirations to build self-worth and meaning. I utilize a combination of evidence-based modalities through free-form talk therapy or through the use of arts to help identify and live out their identity with respectful boundaries and pride in their value creation and development. I have found teen therapy to be a significant space for them to explore and strengthen who they are and take steps to become the adults they want to be.
Are you struggling to understand one another? Do you feel like you're focusing on past resentments instead of building loving memories? My approach combines my training in relationship-specific modalities, including the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and attachment theory, with my training in individual-centered work deconstructing perspectives and preferences, highlighting the ruptures and any harmful patterns, and building effective and respectful communication and physical and emotional regulation skills. Our work together may sometimes feel challenging, vulnerable, and healing throughout the process of repairing and rebuilding the foundations of trust, reciprocity, and attunement.
All love & lifestyles are welcome: Dating, Marital, & LGBTQIA+