More about my work
I approach psychotherapy through several different lenses and perspectives. The first is through Person-Centered therapy, which is the foundation for my practice. As a Person-Centered therapist, I seek to fully understand your thoughts and feelings. I provide non-judgmental listening, reflection, and empathy, to help clients feel accepted, and better able to understand their own feelings. You are the expert of yourself, you know yourself best! ​
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What if you could do a deep dive into your unconscious to find patterns in your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors? How would this change the way you see yourself and your world? I use psychodynamic techniques to help clients recognize and change what doesn't work for them anymore by really looking at where these patters first began. These patterns often begin in childhood and during that time served a purpose. However, sometimes we can get stuck in ways of being that no longer serve us in the present. We focus on deepening your own self-awareness.
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Insight-oriented psychotherapy works out of the assumption that the better you know yourself, the better you will function. "Better functioning" includes symptom improvement and alleviation, along with improvement in your work, academic, social, romantic, and even athletic life. Insight-oriented psychotherapy strives to teach you how and why you function in the ways you do, and to clarify your motivations. It shows you that you have an internal world, and it interprets how that internal world operates. It gives you self-knowledge. Most of all, it gives you freedom.
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Expressive therapy (ET) is utilizing creative means (art, movement, music, play, storytelling) to express ones inner world. ET is especially helpful when working with children and adolescents as it allows them to express what they might not have words for. ET is very natural for children, as they are already used to expressing their world creatively.
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Mindfulness is another technique I often teach clients. Mindfulness is being fully present in the current moment. Being mindful helps reduce anxiety, depression, stress, pain, and increases well-being. You can try a simple exercise right now as an experiment. Try placing your hand on a flat surface. Notice how it feels (temperature, texture, hard/soft) now try placing your hand on your clothing. Notice how that feels, what are the differences? Where were your thoughts when doing this exercise? Where you able to fully focus on your senses? Did the stress of the day become background noise? or totally disappear? Using our senses is one way to attune to the present moment and be mindful.