Welcome

I offer therapy to people who are struggling with various life challenges and looking for a way forward. I provide a space for you to be seen and known. To say, and feel, what is difficult. To find what gives you hope.

Therapy is not just a place to talk about your problems. It is a relationship between two people that promotes healing, new understandings and perspectives. It is a place for you to bring feelings that may be overwhelming and feel unmanageable to deal with on your own. It requires me to understand your experience deeply and for you to try things differently in your life when you are ready.

Therapy Approaches

RELATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

I am trained primarily in relational psychotherapy. This means looking at the issues you bring to therapy as relating to ways you have learned to be in relationships, both past and present. I seek to understand your unique experience and what may be preventing you from living more authentically.

While we may dip into your past, the focus is on your present day life. We want to understand how you have been shaped by past experiences and notice if unhelpful patterns are replaying.

Relational psychotherapy can help you build more emotional tolerance, to increase your capacity to be with feelings, even feelings that are difficult. It can be helpful to look at ways you cope and protect yourself and whether these ways are still serving you. We explore what other options are possible and what risks may be worth taking.

I also have trauma training in somatic approaches and parts work. When appropriate, I use these modalities in combination with a relational approach. My approach is exploratory, collaborative, and specific to each person and what you need at the time. I operate from a feminist, anti-oppressive, LGBTQ*-affirmative framework.

EMDR

I offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a supplementary therapy. It is a model of psychotherapy that is especially useful for trauma. EMDR is a structured, guided therapy that is useful for life events that have a strong, negative hold on you. The approach incorporates cognitive, emotional, and somatic elements. You do not need to retell the story of what happened. This therapy can be useful if you are repeating unhelpful patterns in your life, or defaulting to fight, flight, freeze or fawning reactions.

Areas of Focus:

• Relationships & Attachment

• Developmental Trauma

• Body & Self Image

• Gender & Sexuality

• Grief

• Creative Blocks

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Life Transitions