Working Together
What I Can Help With
Anxiety & Excessive Worry, Post-Traumatic Stress, Grief and Loss, Depressive Symptoms, Low Self-Esteem & Difficulty Trusting Yourself, Coping Skills, Life Transitions & Stress, Deepening Your Relationship With Yourself & Improved Sense of Self
During our work together, I’ll draw on different types of therapies that I feel might best meet your needs. This includes, but is not limited to, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), as well as components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices, and identifying parts of self. I’m all about you feeling your feelings.
Collaborative
Navigating our inner workings without support can be overwhelming, frustrating, or just difficult to know where to start. From the beginning, our work together is meant to be just that, ours. I work to create a space for you to discuss and process difficult feelings and experiences, to feel at ease to be yourself. We would work together to co-create a space that feels comfortable enough to feel uncomfortable.
What Our Work Might Look Like
Supportive & Curious
I try my best to be continually supportive, curious, and open to your experiences and identities. This stance is something I’ll encourage you to adopt towards yourself too. Many times when we struggle, it’s hard to feel those nurturing qualities towards yourself. Being supportive of yourself, or at least finding some curiosity about the parts and experiences of yourself you don’t care for, will be a continual practice together.
I take a warm, non-judgmental stance and I try not to take myself too seriously. I’m directive when I feel it’s important and I also trust you’re doing your best.
Trauma-Informed & Focused
In this case, I’m defining “trauma” as an experience that has had and continues to have an impact on your well-being.
I mean a few things when I say “trauma-informed,” including transparency and checking in with you along the way. This is done as thoughtfully as I can with your experiences in mind.
You aren’t your symptoms and you aren’t your experiences, but you are impacted and informed by them. Looking at the intersections of your experiences, identities, and our systems, we sort through how this influences the way you feel and move through the world.
“Trauma-focused” means, as long as you’re holding a willingness, we are working towards releasing the cognitive, emotional, and embodied distress of the difficult and distressing experiences in your distant and/or recent past.
This means shifting your foundational beliefs, feelings, and embodied experiences to create a life which feels worthwhile and workable to you. It’s okay if you need to avoid too, but we’re probably going to talk about not talking about it.
Embodied & Emotional Connectedness
I’m going to ask you to drop in and feel your feelings, often. This means mindful practices in the moment, identifying, exploring, and labeling physical sensations and emotions. Part of our work together means connecting to yourself and noticing not just thought patterns but emotional and physical patterns and responses to situations.
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose”
— Dolly Parton
