A safe space to explore and grow
Offerings
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is an opportunity to better understand yourself and to expand the ways you show up in the world. Gaining self awareness can open you up to explore new ways to live and help you refine your life to feel more aligned with your values. We’ll collaborate in finding ways to deepen and strengthen your relationship with yourself and your relationships with others.
Couples and Family Therapy
When we’re stuck in relational patterns that cause conflict or distance, it can be challenging to get perspective about what is going on. It can be useful to have a neutral third party whose role it is to focus on the relationship. My training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Structural Family therapy are my foundation in providing a caring lens to figure out how attachment wounds, traumatic events and/or life transitions are negatively impacting relationships. Through attunement, identification of negative relationship patterns and creating space for all emotions to be seen and heard, we’ll work towards rebuilding a home in the relationship.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, is an approach that works with transforming relational patterns by creating safety for all emotions to be present. EFT integrates person-centered therapy, attachment science and family systems therapy to understand the complexity of relationship dynamics. Instead of walking away only with specific tools or scripts to help resolve conflict, the goal of EFT is to create a more secure bond in the relationship. By working with present issues and finding space for everyone’s experiences to be understood and validated, you’ll have more safety in the relationship. We’ll work on transforming negative patterns of disconnection and conflict into pathways back to connection and comfort.
Somatics
In somatic oriented therapy, we work to enhance your body awareness and notice how feelings arise in the body. This can create space to deepen emotion and explore parts of yourself that emerge in the process. Increased body and emotional awareness leads to a stronger connection to your inner wisdom, which guides the pace of your healing journey.
Ego States Work
I integrate ego states or parts work into therapy sessions. From the influential contributions of Dick Schwartz’s IFS model, we understand that each individual has many different internal parts, which have their own distinct personalities. These are formed throughout our lives as we learn about the world and adapt to our unique environments. When a threat is perceived in our environment, sometimes new parts develop in us, attempting to keep us safe. Sometimes, these parts can be critical, harsh, controlling, and/or anxious. Overtime, building trust with different parts, we can unburden them of their fears and responsibilities, as long as the original threat that influenced the parts formation is no longer present. This unburdening process can create more space for your parts to grow and adapt, creating more space for you to develop into your most authentic self.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy) is a well-researched structured method that can be used to treat PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health challenges. After we experience a traumatic event or multiple events, sometimes, our body's stress response can become more easily activated, even if there is no threat in the moment. These stress responses can sometimes be obvious, such as persistent flashbacks and nightmares, or in more subtle ways, such as lower energy levels, chronic pain and elevated anxiety levels. EMDR helps your brain reorganize memories to help you to let go of trauma responses that are connected to past events. EMDR works well with all of the modalities that I integrate into my practice, including somatics and relational work.
