My Approach
It is my belief that therapy should be a collaboration with you, the client. As a therapist, I aspire to provide compassion, understanding, and guidance for you, while at the same time allowing you to take ownership of your work in therapy through active engagement in the therapeutic process.
My therapeutic approach is integrative, utilizing an understanding of the person from the following aspects of psychological theory + therapeutic application:
Mindfulness (attend to the practice of mindful awareness, non-judgment, self-compassion, and acceptance)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (explore relationships between thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviors)
Interpersonal Process Therapy (address the impact of interpersonal relationships on personal identity and in the context of the therapeutic process)
By bringing compassionate awareness to our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, I believe that we have the potential to deepen our awareness and understanding of how we feel about ourselves and how we connect with others. Such awareness and personal insight has the potential to restore the many ways we as humans experience brokenness, emotional pain, and loss as individuals, in relationships, as families, and in communities. In this way, therapy can bring personal strength, growth, and the development of useful insight and skills to address anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and other behaviors and patterns that may result from our brokenness and emotional pain.
Engaging in the process of therapy requires a kind of vulnerability, courage, and personal risk that can feel overwhelming at the outset. And yet, the risk of not investing in your personal growth and healing may be even greater in the long run.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin