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About My Clients
Perhaps you wonder what a life without high levels of religious control might feel like and want to explore your new ideas out loud in a safe space. Navigating a faith crisis can be incredibly overwhelming and scary. You’ve been looking for a therapist who specializes in deconstruction, religious trauma, purity culture, and the challenges of mixed-faith relationships, but still haven’t found the right fit.
My Background and Approach
Below are some of the goals you might want to address in therapy, depending on what your experiences have been: • Understanding Religious Trauma, Adverse Religious Experiences (AREs), and Undue Influence • Grasping the difference between PTSD and cPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) • Moving away from black and white or ‘us vs. them’ fearful thinking • Learning about the stages of deconstruction • Preparing to ‘come out’ to your loved ones • Examining the impact that your experiences might have had on your sexuality • Exploring how messages on gender might have impacted you • Listening to your body’s reactions to situations, especially if you were once taught to negate them • Parsing out what you miss and don’t miss from your old religion • Setting and keeping boundaries • Navigating mixed-faith relationships • Giving yourself permission to stop repressing your thoughts and feelings • No longer fearing ‘the outside world’ • In short, giving yourself permission to be you!
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I place a great deal of importance in the therapeutic alliance, which is just a fancy name for the relationship between the two of us. Tons and tons of research show great alliances make for great therapeutic results. So, from the get-go you and I will discuss how we can make this alliance as strong as possible, and what sorts of things you think could cause a rupture in our relationship and how we could work towards repairing any eventual ruptures. I've been to therapy before, and I myself once 'dumped' a therapist because I felt grossly misunderstood. From my standpoint, I felt dismissed because to me, they disregarded my worldview and instead imposed their own. I vowed that from then on I would empower my future clients with the express permission to tell me if I offend them, if I misunderstood something.... or piss them off. Clients dumping their therapists due to ruptures is indeed a 'thing,' and it prevents clients from making the progress they wish to make. Let's prevent that!