Individual Therapy
Individual clients typically work with me as they face major life transitions and are feeling anxious as they face these transitions.
I mainly utilize the cognitive behavioral model of therapy, which operates under the principle that the combination of our logical mind and our emotional mind leads us to act or behave in certain ways. We all have varying capacity for emotion and logic, many of us tend to be more on one side or the other, and there is inherently nothing wrong with this. Remember that this exploration of logic and emotion in therapy is only one stepping stone in therapy.
Ideally, you arrive in therapy with some goals and the objective is for you to leave therapy closer to achieving or having fully achieved these goals. As therapy progresses, we will do the exploration detailed above and you will also receive education around skills, tools, and body based practices to incorporate into your life. We will also explore what has happened in your life, only as a means to figure out what needs to happen in your life.
I see you as the expert. While I know how to do the work, you know your life best. Remember, your experiences might have shaped you, but they do not define who you are, and you are always capable of growth & change.
Couples Therapy
Couples who work with me have a desire to prepare for a long-term commitment by using therapy as a space to build healthier patterns of communication & boundaries. Couples might also start working with me if they are looking to figure out if they would like to continue their relationship with each other.
In couples counseling, I direct each person to speak to their partner about their individual needs, desires, and insecurities. Only you can know yourself in a way that you can communicate these parts of yourself to others. The goal of being present in couples counseling is to shine a light on all the different parts of you and hold yourself accountable for all the ways you show up within the relationship, and to ultimately help your partner understand all of these parts of yourself so that they can also hold you accountable.
We will deepen our understanding of each person’s attachment style and shift the ways in which you communicate with each other in order to move towards a healthier, more nourishing bond. You will each learn to de-escalate conflict as it arises, disrupt the path of negative communication patterns, identify & accept the ways you show up in the world, express these ways to your partner, and develop new ways to come together and problem solve. This is all in an effort to move forward in the relationship with a stronger sense of connection and healthier models of communication based on each of your individual needs.
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.