I am a trauma-informed licensed marriage and family therapist who believes in the power of transformation through connection. I choose to walk alongside those who may be struggling and wanting to embrace their authentic self.
What is one thing that you have learned through your own therapy?
Mentors, professors, and those experienced in this field will often say you can only take a client as far as you have gone in your own work, meaning that practitioners must experience the process of healing in order to become a guide in someone else’s healing journey. Over the years, I have found this sentiment to be true. During my own journey, I have learned that it takes time, compassion, curiosity, exploration, and nurturing to grow and expand safe connections with my authentic self.
What is your approach to therapy and what does this look like in session?
I provide insight-oriented therapy. This is an approach that focuses on exploring your internal world, becoming curious about that world, and how it operates. To understand the inner workings of the mind, we will together look at past experiences and how this affects the present you. This is a way of bringing awareness to the parts of you that have been wanting to be seen. Diving deeper and choosing to look inward is a brave journey that can offer empowerment and help in finding peace in coming to know who you are.
Let’s break down what this could look like in session.
Talk Therapy allows for exploration and processing of your experiences and interpretations of these experiences. Supplements to talk therapy may include Dream Work, use of Art, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing (SE), and Active Imagination.
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Short Term (Solution-focused, etc.)
Ideal for those who are coming in with a specific problem they’d like to address and gain clarity on. Typically, short term therapies are present focused and do not dive deep into your past.
Structured
Structured therapies are goal and progress oriented. Therapists may incorporate psychoeducation and a specific “curriculum.” In order to stay on track, therapists may provide worksheets and homework.
Insight-oriented (Psychodynamic, Existential, etc.)
Exploring the past and making connections to present issues can help clients gain insight. Getting to the root of the issue and finding deeper self-awareness can help with long-term change.
Non-directive (Humanistic, Person-centered, etc.)
Going with the flow and seeing where it leads.
Behavioral (CBT, DBT, etc.)
Focuses on changing potentially unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors by addressing problematic thought patterns and specific providing coping skills.
Trauma Focused (EMDR, TF-CBT, etc.)
Recognizing the connection between trauma experiences and your emotional and behavioral responses, trauma focused therapy seeks to help you heal from traumas.
