Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I work with passionate people who deeply want to feel connected and loved, but find themselves hurting in relationships. My clients come from backgrounds where they weren’t taught healthy relationship skills, and they realize they're stuck in patterns they want to change, such as self-judgment or blame, self-sabotage, avoidance, relational anxiety, codependency, or abuse. Some of my specialities are anxiety, multicultural issues, dating abuse and domestic violence, relational trauma, and anger.
My Background and Approach
A key principle in my work is the belief that all behavior is adaptive. What this means, is that our behaviors and responses are understandable in the context of our previous experiences. When someone comes into therapy, I first take the time to understand family background, significant life experiences, and sense of community. With a collaborate approach, we explore the driving forces of your behaviors and emotions, increase awareness of common relationship dynamics, and make meaning of your experiences. In this process, we evaluate how your behaviors are both serving and not serving you. I then guide through teaching, encouraging, and supporting you in experiencing yourself and others in new ways. I ask thoughtful questions, identify patterns, and offer feedback to help change what's not working for you. Over time, this helps shift the way you see and engage in your world, and you'll create healthier, more fulfilling relationships with your self and others.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that relationships are the foundation of our life experience. It's through relationships that we experience laughter, joy, passion, and happiness, and it's through relationships that we experience pain, anger, anxiety, and grief. At times we may feel stuck. We may become aware that our emotions or behaviors are causing distress, or getting in the way of the lives we want to lead. My mindset is that everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and sometimes we all need extra support to nurture what gives life meaning. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” In therapy, I help clients tap into their growth and freedom. My passion is helping people work on the impact of their hardships so they don't pass on the legacy of what they experienced.