Individual Therapy
Individual clients typically work with me as they face major life transitions, deal with anxiety, and understand their authentic, neurodiverse selves. Neurodiversity, simply put, is diversity in how we show up in our body and in our community. Too often, we may face ridicule for our obsessions, compulsions, attention, activities, tics, comprehension, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, speech patterns, and personalities. These aspects are the makeup of who we are, and understanding them is the key to accepting them and liberating ourselves.
Through the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), clients identify personal experiences and reframe specific patterns of thinking and the unhelpful emotional responses that are derived from these experiences.
Using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy principles, we will explore our capacity for emotion and reason, integrating the two to develop a “wise” mind - one that is capable of growth, understanding, and self-acceptance.
Within our sessions, I will continuously provide psycho-education around the scientific principles, mental skills, and somatic practices you can use to thrive within your own, unique self. We will always be exploring your families of origin and choice, and the impact that early relationships have on your later life & within your present interpersonal connections.
Each and every relationship we have is intricate, with its own set of values, beliefs, & perspectives, and the way we carry ourselves among these relationships has an impact on our healing process.
Couples Therapy
Couples typically come to therapy with a desire to proactively prepare for a long-term commitment to each other, build healthier patterns of communication and strengthen boundaries, or to engage in a gentle collaboration process following a mutual decision to end their relationship.
Whether you are just beginning your journey together, renewing your bond, or renegotiating your relationship with each other, there is space for you here. My couples therapy sessions are driven by similar principles as individual therapy while also incorporating intense work around our emotions, led by my integration of Emotionally Focused Therapy, or EFT.
The goal for two individuals seeking interpersonal relationship counseling is to be seen, and to see. EFT helps us do that by providing us with a process to uncover your own attachment style, understand your partner’s attachment style, and shift the ways in which you communicate with each other in order to form a healthy, nourishing bond.
You will each learn to de-escalate conflict as it arises, disrupt the path of negative communication patterns, identify & accept your own attachment styles and those of your partner, express your needs with direct clarity, and develop new ways to come together and problem solve.
No matter the situation, communicating to listen, rather than to be heard, is an essential part of the healing process. I provide the space, while each of you brings the compassion, support, and empathy needed to walk through this together.