Never a dull moment!
When we make the decision to seek help, it’s completely normal to feel vulnerable and exposed. Taking that first step on the journey to healing, reaching out, and then opening up to a complete stranger about areas of your life that you want to improve is incredibly challenging. As a therapist, I feel honored and privileged to be entrusted with this responsibility. My goal is to approach our work together with genuine curiosity and a nonjudgmental, open mind.
Building trust, rapport, and transparency between us is paramount, regardless of the challenges you wish to tackle or the approach you prefer to take. I am adaptable and utilize various methods based on what you want to address, always considering the holistic person from a mind-body perspective. Our bodies often hold unspoken knowledge that we tend to overlook, and therapy can be the space to make those vital connections. I adopt a relational approach, emphasizing your strengths and employing a philosophy that is sensitive to trauma. I also take into account your multiple intersecting identities, as well as past and present experiences, while addressing the issues you bring forward. This means we will consider your history, relationship style, biological and psychological factors, protective factors, areas of need, experiences of oppression or marginalization, as well as cultural, social, and societal factors.
Whatever your reason for seeking therapy, my aim is to be sincere, sensitive, supportive, and to gently challenge patterns, always with the goal of promoting your growth and well-being. There may be moments in therapy when you feel unsettled, and I encourage you to discuss this openly during our sessions. Sometimes, this discomfort is an integral part of the process, where you can authentically express your experience and articulate your needs in a relationship that requires vulnerability rather than defensiveness.
Just as I ask you to fully engage in therapy, I want you to understand that I hold myself to the same standard. We will both come as we are, and together, it is my hope that we can foster the positive changes you are seeking.
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Author and Psychiatrist