Person-Centered (Rogerian)

Do you feel the need to speak out what you are experiencing? Are you holding onto thoughts, feelings, or emotions that need to be verbally worked through? If so, person-centered therapy is a great option for your healing journey. Person-centered therapy is often referred to as talk therapy. This allows for YOU to guide the conversation where YOU want, to help YOU unpack and work through exactly what YOU need. I am here to listen and help you guide your own, individual healing.

I hold equanimity and acceptance as the core of what I bring to the safe space I create with my clients. The Rogerian approach is often called unconditional positive regard and this way of relating to clients best serves them in the way that is best for them.

I use unconditional positive regards to treat clients as the main instrument, and they get to control the session.

Accepting yourself as you are and embracing your inherent worthiness are foundational to sustainable change. I will model this welcoming stance during our sessions. I will also be putting you in the driver's seat of your own treatment. While I can offer perspective and information, this is ultimately a collaborative process. You choose how treatment is structured.

You are the expert of your own life and story. I'm just here to listen and guide you along the way!

The therpeuctic alliance is the heart of the therapy process. A deep connection between the therapist and client provides a fertile ground for real change and progress.

I use a person-centered approach to therapy. I will never push you to open up until you’re ready. This is your space, your time, and I will respect you always.

I work from a Person-Centered perspective, I believe that you are the expert on yourself and my job is to provide a safe space for you to explore the idea of change. Sessions typically look like a conversation where I provide feedback and sometimes challenge you to explore ideas that maybe you haven't thought of previously. I treat all of my clients with unconditional positive regard, meaning that I will never judge your decisions or actions, rather we may examine what led to these decisions.

I believe in meeting a client where they are in life. To me, the client knows themselves best and I will never pretend to know them more than they know themselves.

Person-Centered Therapy focuses on the therapeutic relationship. People are not flawed and are not their mental diagnosis. Everyone has the capacity to change and are on a path to self-actualization. The therapist provides the client with empathy and unconditional positive regard to create change in therapy. The client may have had "conditional" positive regard with many people in their life. This therapy creates a safe environment for the client to explore thoughts and feelings in the moment.

My graduate school training was taught with a focus in person-centered therapy, and I have continued to use this as a baseline for my clinical practice throughout my work.

My doctoral studies and training focused extensively on classical, Client-Centered theory and therapies in the tradition founded by Carl Rogers. I teach Person-Centered therapy at the graduate level, contributing to clinical research and international conferences.

Therapy is a collaborative process and I see my role as a therapist to be a partner in to progress toward self-change. You are the expert in your own life. I am hear to take your lead and offer the tools I have for you to work toward the goals that are important to you. I strive to offer unconditional positive regard and to make sessions a safe place for those I work with. I am open to feedback to make therapy work for you.

I am dedicated to fostering a supportive and empathetic therapeutic environment. My expertise lies in empowering clients by emphasizing their innate strengths and capacity for self-healing. Through active listening, unconditional positive regard, and genuine empathy, I guide clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings, promoting personal growth and self-discovery. This approach helps clients achieve greater self-awareness and fulfillment.

Carl Rogers and the person-centered tradition are my "home" as a therapist. My master's thesis in Counseling Psychology was on ways in which Rogers' psychotherapeutic theory overlaps with or nuances current claims within psychology, neuroscience, and the humanities about "affect theory." I identify as a person-centered therapist, and view Rogers' claims as being a helpful starting point for psychotherapeutic practice.