To realign clients with their innate wisdom, as well as their own therapeutic goals, I employ a variety of clinical approaches. I draw from contemplative practices, mindfulness, and Buddhist psychology, a client-centered humanistic focus, trauma-informed perspectives, and a narrative, social justice/feminist, gestalt, and structural therapeutic and theoretical orientation.

I also understand that every client and relationship is unique, so while I often draw from these modalities, I also focus on attuning to the energy and needs of the present moment in order to create a therapeutic dynamic that best addresses your specific history, personality, needs, struggles, and goals.

As a clinician, I value your time and commitment to counseling, so I will regularly check in with you to make sure your needs and goals are being addressed, and what changes or adjustments you may be wanting. An open and honest dialogue and exchange of feedback is very important to me as a clinician.

My style leans more towards deep processing and integration, as well as the development of a strong therapist-client relationship over time. Consequently, I tend to stray away from Solution or Brief-Solution Focused Therapy, which aims to identify a specific problem and then more immediately attend to its most surface and observable struggles and difficulties. This type of therapy can be immensely beneficial, but it is not what I personally lean towards as a clinician. This is not to say that we won’t cover and develop tangible and applicable coping strategies, but by and large, I see clients for a minimum of six months to a year. I do understand that not everyone envisions or desires that type of arrangement for therapy, so I want to be very upfront about my style and philosophy.

It is also highly important to me to create a space where my clients feel listened to and seen rather than lectured to, judged, condemned, or pathologized. By providing and holding space for my clients to authentically show up, I aim to bring my full, present attention to their process to create an open-minded, validating, and supportive container for vulnerability and complex thoughts and emotions to surface. In therapy, I will challenge you to stay with the discomfort that arises during self-reflection and therapeutic processing in order to support your overall journey of shedding restrictive patterns and living more freely from suffering. In this process, I will help you identify and compassionately relate to underlying issues, harmful patterns, relational obstacles, difficult emotions, reoccurring anxieties, painful family patterns, and intergenerational trauma histories.

In my practice, I will also focus on examining dynamics of power and experiences of systemic and interpersonal oppression, both within and outside of the therapist-client relationship. We will explore how intersectional dynamics of race, culture, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and sexuality impact your lived experience, trauma history, and worldview.

Additionally, I believe that we all have the capacity to heal and reconnect when the right conditions and relational support are present. As such, I aim to provide a non-judgmental, safe environment where this type of healing relationship can thrive to most effectively uncover my client’s inherent insight, flexibility, and health. Throughout this process, I focus on highlighting my client’s strengths, working with dynamics that arise within the therapist-client relationship, and directly bringing the client(s) awareness to protective strategies and patterns they may have developed during times of necessity, emotional duress, singular or repetitive harmful experiences, oppression, difficulty, conflict, lack of attunement, or inconsistency in relationships, or a lack of real or perceived safety, be it emotional, mental, or physical. Typically, though not always, these protective strategies and patterns no longer serve our current experience or well-being. Consequently, therapy can serve as the groundwork for clients to compassionately relate to and become aware of these patterns while simultaneously allowing for new and situationally-attuned decisions to be made and enacted.