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About My Clients
Life is tricky. From time to time, we all struggle with feeling content, good enough, and satisfied. This is where therapy can help. We know from research when positive thoughts and feelings are verbalized, our experience of comfort increases, and by sharing negative thoughts and feelings, our experience of discomfort decreases. Therapy helps us feel more heard, seen, connected, and emotionally grounded. Therapy is not a magic pill or a quick fix: therapy is healing
My Background and Approach
As well as a LCSW, I am also a certified yoga instructor and acudetox practitioner. Holding a holistic framework for my practice means combining both traditional, evidenced-based therapeutic practices with more creative Eastern-minded approaches. I believe the experience of suffering can be the road map to healing, which comes from having a body, mind, and spirit connection. Suffering is often our first sign of needing help and provides many clues on how to heal. From this angle, I explore with my clients ways to align with their inner healer to hear the message suffering has for them. I use a relational approach to therapy, believing our connection to others is key for a healthy experience. Relationships throughout our lives, both positive and negative, help create the template from which we learn to operate. By cultivating a collaborative, warm, and accepting therapeutic relationship, clients become empowered to take this template out of the office and into their personal lives.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Deciding to be a therapist was an easy decision for me. It just felt right. What I learned on my journey becoming a therapist was humbling and ground shaking: I need to do my work in order to the therapist I wanted to be. This process changed me and I felt the power of this work. I had always believed in our innate ability to heal and believed in the resiliency of the human spirit, however, it came alive in a hold new way through my own journey in therapy.