Elisabeth Harvey (She/her)

Goals in psychodynamic therapy include acknowledgment of emotions, identifying patterns, improving interpersonal relationships, and recognizing/addressing avoidance. My goal in using this modality is for people to be able to gain insight into their current daily lives through self-reflection of their past.

I have experience working with people of many cultural backgrounds including Hispanic/Latinx, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+. It is important to me as a therapist to consider your background/identity as well as my own as our culture/identity provides context for our behaviors and understanding of the world.

Trauma-informed care has guiding principles which include feelings safety, trustworthiness/transparency, peer support, collaboration/mutuality, empowered voice/choice, and consideration of culture/history/gender. I strive to use this in my practice with every person as each person is unique and has their own story. In using this modality, my goal is for you to feel a restored sense of safety, power, and self-worth.

The main focus of my work is in trauma informed care. I utilize psychodynamics and mindfulness to help those process their past traumas and coping with them. My goal is for people to acknowledge their stories, but feel they have the power to re-write their narrative.

A lot of the individuals I work with experience anxiety. My goal is to work with you to identify triggers to your anxiety and how they affect your life. I strive to help you learn how to manage these symptoms through acceptance and mindfulness approaches.

Many of the individuals I work with have experienced episodes of or live with chronic depression. It can be hard to share these thoughts and I look to help people process how it affects their lives. Like anxiety, I am not looking to have someone ignore their depression, but to learn to cope with them and think about how they can reframe their thinking in a way that is more realistic.