SPECIALTIES

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Many negative emotions and dysfunctional patterns come from intense and distorted ways of thinking. Together we explore the way you think about yourself, others, and the world. We use your life experiences and best thinking to create more balanced and complete thinking/behaviors. CBT works to create new and balanced patterns of thinking about yourself and the world around you.

Bowen Family Systems

Explore how your family history and relationship patterns shape who you are today. This theory is based on the idea that we’re all deeply connected to our family systems, through emotions and patterns whether we realize and like it or not. We use this as a tool to gain insight and awareness on your and your families emotional responses, transmission of anxiety, understand generational patterns, and create a more harmonious way of being your best self in all of your relationships. I help you learn to manage your own anxiety and stop managing your loved ones anxiety.

Solution Focused

Break away from problem focused thinking and behavior and learn to develop a solution focused mindset and better manage stressors and discomforting situations and reoccurring negative patterns. I help you pull from your strengths, interests, and the past to help you create a more functional solution oriented present and future.

Narrative Therapy

This is way of helping people see that they are not the problem; the problem is the problem. By exploring and rewriting the stories of their lives, people can reclaim agency, values, and hope. I help you to examine how you woven into different systems systems, often in ways you might not fully see. Through this approach, you get to explore your internal emotional and external behavioral responses, gain clarity on the dynamics passed down through generations, and begin to step into a more mindful, compassionate way of being in your various relationships and your life. You will feel empowered as we uncover strengths, values, and preferred identities that may have been overshadowed by problem-saturated narratives.

Somatic and Mindfulness

Mindfulness involves cultivating non-judgmental awareness of the present moment, enhancing emotional regulation and stress reduction. Somatic therapy integrates this awareness with a focus on bodily sensations, recognizing that trauma and emotional experiences are often stored in the body, and works through these physical cues to facilitate healing. I work with you to pause and uncover what is happening emotionally, energetically, and physically in the bod. We learn to identify and create what specifically works for you(styles of breathing or ways to move) under particular stressors and how you can integrate those tools in your life.

Coaching

In our individual and couple therapy sessions I sprinkle elements of coaching such as creating and role playing scripts of difficult conversation or boundary setting, career exploration, goal oriented maintenance work to incorporate in between sessions

If you are interested in coaching we determine if you want 8, 10, 12, 15, or 20 sessions and at what pace. Coaching is future-focused and action-oriented. Coaching helps you identify where you are now, where you want to go, and how to get there. It’s about clarity, accountability, and building the tools to move forward — not just insight, but action. In coaching we make a goal and stick to the goal with a clear plan.

Coaching is not therapy and due to ethical reasons, I cannot be your coach and your therapist.

Ally:

Body Positivity,

Gay Allied, 

Lesbian Allied,

Transgender Allied,

Queer Allied,

Non-Binary Allied, 

Open Relationships: Non-Monogamy, 

Racial Justice Allied, 

Sex Worker Allied, 

Sex-Positive, Kink Allied, 

Cult survivor Allied,

Religious abuse Allied,

Narcissist abuse survivor Allied.