Find Someone to Walk Beside You

My Approach

 

My approach starts with respecting each person’s story and perspective and builds toward goals from there. Whether in relationship with yourself, your partner, or others in your life, sometimes you get stuck in loops and can't seem to break free. I’m here to explore with you in understanding where these cycles have come from, making sense of yourself and the world around you, and learning where to go from there. Freedom from those cycles can be hard to find on your own, and together we can untangle and make sense of where you are and explore the path to where you’d rather be.

I use a variety of methods for helping people reach for meaning, connection, and the life they’re hoping for. My approach is based in relationships, learning to recognize patterns and build new strategies for meeting needs, developing a story that can help map out a new direction, facing and accepting the difficult aspects of life, clarifying values, and understanding how bodies and brains impact how people function. I partner with people to incorporate their values, beliefs, backgrounds, needs, and expertise in their own lives into the process of growth, change, and connection that promote resilience, interdependence, and freedom in life and relationships.

Issues I Treat

  • ABUSE

  • ANXIETY

  • COMPASSION FATIGUE

  • COMPLEX TRAUMA

  • DEPRESSION

  • FAITH DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION

  • FAMILY CONFLICT

  • HISTORICAL TRAUMA

  • LOSS OR GRIEF

  • PANIC

  • PERSONAL GROWTH

  • PTSD

  • RELATIONSHIP / MARRIAGE ISSUES

  • RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL TRAUMA

  • SELF-ESTEEM

  • SEXUAL ABUSE

  • SOCIAL PHOBIA

  • SPIRITUALITY

Techniques I Use

  • ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)

  • ATTACHMENT THEORY

  • COUPLES COUNSELING

  • EMDR (EYE-MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION & REPROCESSING THERAPY)

  • EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED/EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY

  • EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

  • FAMILY SYSTEMS

  • FEMINIST THERAPY

  • HOLISTIC THERAPY

  • HUMANISTIC THERAPY

  • INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

  • INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY

  • MINDFULNESS-BASED THERAPY

  • MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING

  • NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION

  • PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY

  • SYSTEMS THEORY

Learn how we can find the way forward together.