What started as excellent adaptations to childhood circumstances are often still operating in our lives as adults. Through that lens, our behaviors make sense.

• By sitting with our feelings and noticing what comes up in a warm and supportive environment, we begin to understand the lessons learned in our early days, and life begins to shift.

• My main goal is to witness, attune to, and support you in your work.

Great… so, what’s that look like? 

Our first few sessions involve building relationship as we learn about what brings you to therapy, what you want for your life, what your strengths are, and what internal resources you have on hand or need to build.

• If you don’t feel safe, seen, or met, we will work together to find what’s holding us back, or I’ll help you find someone with whom there is a better feel of ‘fit.’

• If needed, we’ll slow down and give your nervous system time to acclimate to this space as safe. 

Early in our time together, we’ll work through a general-to-specific set of questions about your past. Then, with the understanding that many roads will take us in the same direction, we’ll decide together where to start.

• Together, we’ll seek to identify the roots of childhood learning that you are applying to adult problems today (as we all have done), we’ll develop a more realistic picture of your situation and yourself.

I intend to be transparent about what I’m seeing and how I think we might go forward. My hope is to always seek consent for the direction we go, ensuring you have voice and choice.

My services are welcoming for all sexual orientations and identities, people of color, immigrants, people of all abilities, religious minorities, and people of all sizes. (If I missed something, that’s on me - you are welcome in my office!) I have experience working with anxiety and depression, shame and guilt, childhood and single incident trauma, and change in general.

• If you’re curious about generational trauma, I might be your girl.

If it turns out that your needs are outside the scope of my competency, or that my approaches do not resonate well with your system, I will make referrals to other professionals for you.

• You may seek a second opinion from another therapist or may terminate therapy at any time.