Therapy Approach
My therapeutic approach is non-judgmental, curious, open, direct, and warm. I try to balance the seriousness with lightheartedness. I embrace the complexity and intricacies that every individual brings with their life and their history. I value and strive to always hold clients within a greater context in regards to systemic oppression, colonization, the family system, trauma history, and one's current life circumstances.
The clients I work with can struggle with anxiety, trauma, grief, executive function, OCD, ADHD, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, existential dread, social anxiety, sexuality, CPTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, self-esteem, and more.
While every individual is unique, I’ve found that many common, universal themes emerge among my clients that I skillfully expand upon and enjoy working with. Some of these are:
Grief
Not just grief from loss, but grief we don’t necessarily think of as grief such as grief from the past, grief regarding the overwhelming state of the world and overall health of the planet, grief due to change and life transitions, or grief from feeling a lack of vitality or creative energy.
Anxiety: ADHD, OCD, Social Anxiety
Do you have a hard time managing your schedule, balancing all of life’s responsibilities, accomplishing tasks, time management, making that phone call? Restlessness? Executive function? And then feel existential about it? We can work on this. Our electronic world has moved us far away from a more baseline simplicity.
Trauma: Intergenerational, Complex, Developmental
Trauma can be passed down for 7 generations. It can be stored in the body as pain or illness, experiencing a “block,” “a void,” dissociation, or an unknown force that seems larger than you. As we begin to move through your own personal therapy work, you may find yourself doing the unhealed work of your great-grandparent, your mother, father, or feeling the grief they never felt. If CPTSD or Borderline Personality Disorder is something that describes you or resonates with you, I work with these presentations in a proactive, thoughtful, and non-pathologizing way.
Queer, LGBTQ, Transgender
The queer and transgender community continues to fascinate me with its capacity to transcend. We are needed now more than ever. If you are gender expansive in any way or questioning your gender or sexuality, I work delicately and thoughtfully to hold the undeniable complexity, pain, and sense of liberation that is present within this process.
Masculinity and Men’s Issues
For men who are sensitive and need a space to explore and deepen their sensitivity. For men who are increasingly trying to break patterns of masculinity that limit their growth and potential in order to allow more honest parts of themselves to emerge. These patterns can include repressing and rejecting valuable feelings, hyper-independence, anger management, competitiveness, control, etc. Working on developing a healthier expression of masculinity in modern times can be very healing.
Financial Wellness
This is a topic rarely discussed openly that many of us do not contend with in a conscious way. Money is an exchange of energy and the messages we receive in the past and present around managing finances, spending money, saving money, having money, not having enough money, and earning money are deeply internalized. I will work with you to identify goals around how you can feel more conscious, organized, confident, and liberated by tending to this aspect of life rather than avoiding it.
Psychedelic Integration
Psychedelics are propelling change forward which I believe is needed now more than ever to heal trauma and the planet. If you are working with psychedelic-assisted therapy, I offer integration sessions- an essential part of medicine work.
Book your 1st appointment here with me today as soon as tomorrow (if available) or next week.
I weave together many different modalities and interventions, finding therapy to be a co-created, highly creative practice.