about
Wherever you go along the path, there I will meet you.
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There are two primary elements that make up the majority of the magic that happens in therapy: the quality of what is shared between the two people in the therapy space, and the elements that are carried forth by the client and applied to life.
The relational quality that I cultivate with clients is warm, non-judgmental, accepting, curious, and intimate. Treatment focuses on a number of elements, such as finding ways to ease symptoms, uncovering patterns, drawing connections between life experiences and inner experience, understanding the self, understanding emotion and how it functions, understanding relationships, defining and reinforcing boundaries, and discovering possibility. I help clients define values and goals and how to reach them.
Throughout therapy I teach and encourage the practice of skills, such as mindfulness and relaxation techniques, various forms of meditation, distress tolerance, coping mechanisms, thought recording, and perspective taking to help new behaviors come to feel more natural and reflexive. With time, these skills become a part of who you are: stronger, more self-compassionate, more meaningfully connected, more filled with wisdom.
Sometimes we sit together, with the client existing as is and with intention put towards simply being without effort to change. This offers one of the most vital lessons that can be learned in therapy: how to accept difficult emotions and bodily sensations as they are; how to be be accepted and valued as you are; how to accept and value yourself as you are.
My theoretical approach is based primarily in Mindfulness Theory, and I frequently draw from other theories to fine-tune as fits, such as Psychodynamic theories, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed treatment, Positive Psychology/Strengths Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Rumination-Focused Exposure Response Prevention theory.
I have worked with a wide variety of symptom presentations, life struggles, and clinical situations, with significant experience treating anxiety and depression, identity, adjustment, adjustment specifically to college and academic stress, separation from parents, college-related stressors, life transitions, romantic relationships, friendships, and family relationships, self-harm, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and existential crises. Please see my page entitled "Experience" for my work with diverse clientele.
The relational quality that I cultivate with clients is warm, non-judgmental, accepting, curious, and intimate. Treatment focuses on a number of elements, such as finding ways to ease symptoms, uncovering patterns, drawing connections between life experiences and inner experience, understanding the self, understanding emotion and how it functions, understanding relationships, defining and reinforcing boundaries, and discovering possibility. I help clients define values and goals and how to reach them.
Throughout therapy I teach and encourage the practice of skills, such as mindfulness and relaxation techniques, various forms of meditation, distress tolerance, coping mechanisms, thought recording, and perspective taking to help new behaviors come to feel more natural and reflexive. With time, these skills become a part of who you are: stronger, more self-compassionate, more meaningfully connected, more filled with wisdom.
Sometimes we sit together, with the client existing as is and with intention put towards simply being without effort to change. This offers one of the most vital lessons that can be learned in therapy: how to accept difficult emotions and bodily sensations as they are; how to be be accepted and valued as you are; how to accept and value yourself as you are.
My theoretical approach is based primarily in Mindfulness Theory, and I frequently draw from other theories to fine-tune as fits, such as Psychodynamic theories, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed treatment, Positive Psychology/Strengths Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Rumination-Focused Exposure Response Prevention theory.
I have worked with a wide variety of symptom presentations, life struggles, and clinical situations, with significant experience treating anxiety and depression, identity, adjustment, adjustment specifically to college and academic stress, separation from parents, college-related stressors, life transitions, romantic relationships, friendships, and family relationships, self-harm, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and existential crises. Please see my page entitled "Experience" for my work with diverse clientele.