Let’s do what works for you.

I provide a combination of insight-oriented and solution-focused psychotherapy. That means that I facilitate better understanding of yourself and your behaviors and I help you find workable strategies that lead to improvements in your life.

We create a safe and exploratory space that empowers you to dare to do the things you may have been avoiding such as facing your fears, sitting with discomfort, speaking up, disagreeing with your therapist, looking into hidden and dark spots, trying unfamiliar ways of doing things, challenging your thoughts etc.

Daring to take the steps out of your comfort zone expands your experience and perspective. This is where progress emerges.

Discovering that you are making progress builds your confidence in your ability to deal with problems and propels you to continue your journey of healing and growth.

My aim is that you will be equipped to continue to make progress with your life improvement projects after terminating therapy.

I like to pick and choose from a variety of treatment tools and adapt techniques in order to meet the individual needs of each client. As a lifelong learner, I enjoy refining my tools and adding new ones. That being said, I draw largely from the following treatment modalities:

  • Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Trauma informed

Regardless of whether people disclose a history of trauma at the beginning of therapy, I have observed that my clients often start making sense of recurring behaviors that they previously found puzzling and hard to understand. They may realize that certain behaviors served as bandages they had placed on emotional wounds allowing them to resume their life’s tasks. For a good portion of time the bandage did its job of protecting the wound. However, occasionally, certain elements manage to penetrate the bandage and touch and irritate the wound causing it to hurt again.

Everyone reacts differently to such discoveries. Some may choose to keep the bandage as it is, some may want to rip it off and replace with a fresh one, and others may choose to peel it off slowly, clean and air out the wound and apply ointments. It is key to respect my client’s choices and meet them where they are at. You are in the driver’s seat.

Therapy approach impressions:

Thoughts

Thoughts are not facts. You can place a question mark behind them.

Was this a helpful thought?

Emotions

Emotions communicate clues about what is going on in our lives and motivate our behavior.

You can learn how to be in charge of your response to your emotions.

Behaviors

Let’s examine how this behavior is and isn’t serving you.

Understanding the function of a behavior is often an important first step in changing it.

Body

The body communicates about your mental and physical state through signals. Listen to what your body has to say.

Find out what you can do with your body to make yourself feel, think and function better.

Strenghts

I am as interested in looking for your strengths as I am in learning about your problems.

Recognizing and utilizing your strengths is a recipe for progress.

Purpose

Knowing what truly matters to you is your compass, doing things that align with what you value is fuel for your journey of healing and growth.