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Individual therapy gives you the opportunity to focus on yourself and examine where you came from and discover where you want to go. I offer a warm, conversational and inclusive space for you to be curious about your feelings and explore the meaning you make of your experiences. So often parts of ourselves can feel alienated, silenced or in constant conflict, leading to confusion and emotional pain. Together we can nurture deeper understanding and find new ways of coping with life's challenges. I am an IFS informed therapist and also draw on other modalities such as attachment focused, systems centered, and psychodynamic theory to inform my work. I am interested in looking at the stories we tell ourselves based on early experiences and family of origin relationships. We can’t always fully remember or articulate some of these experiences because we were so young, but we can feel their effects emotionally and physically. Together, we will sift through those experiences, impressions, and the felt sense of your history. We can then get a better idea of how these experiences have shaped the ways in which you relate to yourself and others in the present. Through cultivating a better relationship to our self and our nervous system, we can take better care of our own needs, feel more connected to all of our parts and live our lives from a more integrated and self compassionate place.
Close connection is fundamental to our human experience, but navigating conflict within a relationship can be painful and challenging especially if we have experienced attachment wounding and interpersonal trauma. I am experienced in helping folks, both polyamorous and monogamous, address issues like emotional disconnection, conflict and communication, difficulties with finances, sex, infidelity, and work stressors. I draw from Gottman, Emotion Focused therapy, Imago techniques as well as systems theory when helping folks find ways of both improving their ability to show up for themselves and for their partner in a committed relationship.
In interpersonal process therapy groups, group members explore and resolve the patterns that limit fulfillment in relationships with ourselves and others.Within a supportive and dynamic environment, group members develop self confidence and skills to move beyond interpersonal challenges, anxiety, self doubt, conflict and alienation. In group therapy, members identify and express feelings, reactions and concerns which have historically been silenced, and negotiate disagreements rather than avoiding them. Working through issues around boundaries, trust, communication and conflict, group members develop the skills to pursue and repair meaningful connections. Group members benefit from sharing their stories with others and also from observing other group members deepen their own insight and self knowledge. We can “try on” behaviors we have been afraid to in our everyday lives in the laboratory of group therapy, building a clearer sense of how we want to show up in relationships.
I have a deep love for the mentors I have met in my 8 years as a therapist. This work we do is so delicate, rewarding and challenging. I am passionate about offering affirming and inclusive supervision to clinicians grappling with ethical quandaries, countertransference, conscious and unconscious biases, therapeutic impasses, and empathic breaks. These are inevitable experiences as therapists and it is essential we examine them with curiosity, compassion and honesty with a trusted mentor. I myself am in ongoing consultation and training on a weekly basis. It is essential in order for me to stay centered, ethical and healthy in this field. I offer supervision to individuals seeking licensure for LCSW or who are simply looking for more support with their ongoing clinical work after licensure.
