Therapy helps you live the life you want to live
Dedicating time to yourself can bring healing.
I believe that individuals can and do recover from most difficulties. I work with my clients to gain a deep understanding of their unique stories and offer interventions that draw on their existing strengths and cultivate new skills. This approach ensures that meaningful and lasting change can occur.
I incorporate aspects of the following types of therapy in my approach:
Mindfulness
Based in ancient Buddhist traditions, mindfulness practices help individuals become more aware of their physical and emotional state in the present moment without judgment. Mindfulness has many benefits including reduced stress, reduced anxiety/worry, boosts to working memory, improved focus, increased cognitive flexibility, greater relationship satisfaction, and less emotional reactivity.
Self-compassion
Self-compassion is a central tenet of Buddhist psychology. Simply put, self-compassion is offering yourself the same kindness you would offer a loved one. It involves recognizing your own suffering, acknowledging and making space for the pain involved with suffering, and recognizing that suffering is part of the human experience.
Relational-cultural therapy
Relational-cultural therapy (RCT) focuses on the centrality of relationships and connectedness in our lives. Connection with others is the cornerstone of wellbeing. Disconnection leads to suffering and distress. Therapy can help you shift patterns of disconnection toward connection.
Insight-oriented therapy
Also known as psychodynamic therapy, this approach centers on the belief that the more you know yourself, the better you can function in your life. By identifying and examining patterns of behaviors and emotional responses, individuals can understand how their past experiences may be shaping their current responses and behaviors. Psychodynamic therapy is the oldest form of psychotherapy and has demonstrated effectiveness for a wide-range of mental illnesses.
Skills-based therapy
These cognitive-based therapies focus on learning specific skills for stress reduction, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, among other things.
More information
For more information on therapy and how it works, please read this article by the American Psychological Association.
Therapy can help you…
Navigate life transitions
Starting a new relationship. Becoming a parent. Going through divorce. Changing careers. Therapy can help you explore these transitional experiences and address your reactions, expectations, and worries.
Process grief and loss
Loss of a loved one, whether expected or unexpected, can be devastating. When we love someone deeply, it only follows that our grief over their loss will be equally as deep. Learning to live with grief is possible when we acknowledged and make space in our hearts for the pain of loss.
Lessen anxiety and panic
Do you find that your worry is preventing you from engaging in things you enjoy? Do you avoid certain situations, responsibilities or relationships because they cause anxiety? Many people experience anxiety and panic. Therapy can help you learn to better manage your anxiety and panic through staying in the present moment and accepting your current challenges.
Address relational stress and conflict
All relationships have conflict. Individual therapy can help you understand how to better navigate conflict in your relationship by understanding your ways of relating, places where you get stuck, and how to resolve conflict.
Face fertility challenges and pregnancy loss
Infertility and pregnancy loss are often invisible to others. Without public rituals to honor these losses, the grief process can feel isolating and silenced. Therapy can offer you a place to honor your loss, acknowledge and work through the grief, and create new meaning in your life.
Heal from traumatic experiences
Many people experience trauma in their lifetimes. Childhood abuse and neglect, sexual or physical assault, community violence, natural disasters, and car accidents are all examples of traumatic experiences. These types of experiences overwhelm our ability to cope and may have long-lasting effects such as reliving the event, avoiding things that remind you of the event, feeling on edge, and having more negative thoughts than before. By engaging in trauma therapy, individuals can and do recover from these and other trauma-related responses.