We are human beings. Not diagnoses, not disorders, and not problems.
Psychotherapy utilizes advancements in the sciences of mental health while keeping in mind the deeper, more rooted experience of being human, that is reflected in the arts, literature and humanities. We utilize the space not only to heal wounding, but to incubate and nourish growth.
As a client-centered clinician, I collaborate with you as we pool knowledge and understanding to find the treatment plan that is right for you. I am neither anti-medicine or adamantly pro-medicine. However, I think anti-depressants prescribed for the use to treat both anxiety and depression can be extremely beneficial compared to psychotherapy alone. Science agrees, and you will find research on BiPolar disorder that supports the use of therapy plus medication.
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Is This You?
You are an out-of-the-box thinker who needs unconventional solutions for your unconventional life.
You are independent and explore frontiers of thinking with regards to work, relationship styles, and parenting.
You have layered, complex, sometimes oppositional feelings and could use help understanding them.
Your brain goes a million miles an hour in a thousand directions and you could use space to process what’s next.
Despite reaching career milestones and being given important responsibilities, you still feel like you are not good enough.
You are pulled between work and personal life and you feel guilty about it.
You have trouble setting boundaries in your relationships.
You are working to move past childhood trauma from Narcissistic Parents, abuse, neglect, and dysfunction.
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You desire to be YOURSELF and live an authentic life.
Support for alternative lifestyles, extended family structures, chosen families, blended families, single and happy, childfree and happy, and all types of relationship structures.
A lot of my clients are interested in exploring ideas outside of the traditional marriage, gender roles, and a “white picket fence” nuclear family. A lot of my clients find comfort that I am working on decolonizing my practice. The personal is political.
There’s plenty of “regular” folks who see me too; except, what is “normal?” All of us live outside of one box or another.
You are ready to put in the work to change
We will work on:
LOVE, SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS
MANAGING STRESS AND REGULATING EMOTIONS
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND ABUSE/NARCISSISTIC ABUSE
SETTING BOUNDARIES
FAMILY and COMMUNITY
DECOLONIZATION, SHOWING UP, AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM
IMPOSTOR SYNDROME
TRAUMA
ANXIETY, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY
GENDER IDENTITY ISSUES
LATE STAGE CAPITALISM BLUES, OPPRESION TRAUMA, OPPRESSOR TRAUMA AND THE “What’s next?”
and more
