Therapy Approach
Supporting You Through Life’s Complexity
The clients I work with can struggle with anxiety, trauma, grief, challenges with executive function, OCD, ADHD, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, existential dread, social anxiety, sexuality concerns, complex PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, self-esteem, and more.
My therapeutic style is warm, curious, direct, holistic, and non-judgmental. I bring both seriousness and lightheartedness into the therapy room—holding space for pain and complexity, while also making room for humor, growth, and relief.
I view every client within the larger context of their life: systemic oppression, cultural identity, family dynamics, trauma history, and present-day circumstances. These all shape how we relate to ourselves and the world. I believe healing requires acknowledging and integrating these layers.
While every individual is unique, I’ve found that many common, universal themes emerge among my clients that I expand upon and enjoy working with. Some of these are:
Grief
Not just grief from loss, but grief we don’t necessarily think of as grief such as grief from the past, grief regarding the overwhelming state of the world and overall health of the planet, grief due to change and life transitions, or grief from feeling a lack of vitality or creative energy.
Anxiety: ADHD, OCD, Social Anxiety
Do you have a hard time managing your schedule, balancing all of life’s responsibilities, accomplishing tasks, time management, making that phone call? Restlessness? Executive function? And then feel existential about it? We can work on this. Our electronic world has moved us far away from a more baseline simplicity. We will work to recognize the relationship between your anxiety and your avoidance which keeps you in a cyclical trap of inaction.
Trauma: Intergenerational, Complex, Developmental
Trauma can be passed down for 7 generations. It can be stored in the body as pain or illness, experiencing a “block,” “a void,” dissociation, or an unknown force that seems larger than you. As we begin to move through your own personal therapy work, you may find yourself doing the unhealed work of your great-grandparent, your mother, father, or feeling the grief they never felt. If CPTSD or Borderline Personality Disorder is something that describes you or resonates with you, I work with these presentations in a proactive, thoughtful, and non-pathologizing way.
Queer, LGBTQ, Transgender
The queer and transgender community continues to fascinate me with its capacity to transcend limiting norms and the harm in conformity. We are needed now more than ever. If you are gender expansive in any way or questioning your gender or sexuality, I work delicately and thoughtfully to hold the undeniable complexity, pain, and sense of liberation that is present within this process.
Masculinity and Men’s Issues
For men who are sensitive and need a space to explore and deepen their sensitivity. For men who are increasingly trying to break patterns of masculinity that limit their growth and potential in order to allow more honest parts of themselves to emerge. These patterns can include repressing and rejecting valuable feelings, hyper-independence, anger management, competitiveness, control, etc. You can be someone new and more whole by developing a healthier expression of your masculinity.
Financial Wellness
This is a topic rarely discussed openly that many of us do not contend with in a conscious way. Money is an exchange of energy and the messages we receive in the past and present around managing finances, spending money, saving money, having money, not having enough money, and earning money are deeply internalized. I will work with you to identify goals around how you can feel more conscious, organized, confident, and liberated by tending to this aspect of life rather than avoiding it.
