Individual adult psychotherapy
It’s time to make a change
It’s the middle of the night. You’re lying in bed, still not asleep after trying everything you know help yourself. Spinning on that conversation yesterday. “Was what I said stupid? I know they hate me.” Around and around you go, frustrated, scared, exasperated. Your alarm will go off in 2 hours, another night without the real rest you need. If only there was something to help… but it just feels so stuck like this.
Have you found nights like this happening far more often than you’d like? Lying awake reviewing things your said or did with a critical, negative view. It can be incredibly frustrating to experience this kind of suffering, and just wishing you could turn your brain off. Maybe you’re ready to get support here, and understand yourself more. It’s time to speak to a therapist who has been there and knows how to help.
Issues I work with
I work with a wide range of issues and I love variety. One of the most important things I look for when I start working with clients in therapy is a willingness to try and perhaps an interest in the ways I work in therapy. Hakomi psychotherapy is one of the main ways I practice, which encompasses mindfulness and somatic psychotherapy. Additionally, I use Gestalt, otherwise known as parts work, which is a type of therapy that sees the self as a combination of our many parts – each of whom at times want and feel different things. In addition to these main modalities, my style is eclectic, attachment-based, wholistic and trauma-informed. I incorporate aspects of addictions treatment, DBT, transpersonal psychology, and an overall acknowledgement that wellness looks different for all of us.
The bottom line is – no matter what’s happening with you or how you feel now, you won’t scare me, gross me out, or disappoint me. I have confidence that with some motivation, willingness and consistency in therapy that the wisdom you already have inside you will become more clear and can support you to find more freedom and authenticity. I know how to help people out of very psychologically stuck places.
If this sounds like you, I want you to know you aren’t alone. It can however, feel incredibly lonely to suffer in our own heads. The first step towards getting better in any way is sharing our hurt, shame, frustration, with another human. In my therapy practice, I place special attention on helping you feel deeply heard and understood before we move to making any changes. Something magical happens when we find that supportive therapeutic relationship and know in our bones that someone really gets us. From there, more possibilities can bloom.
How I Practice
The way I work is client-centered, mindfulness-based and somatic. I see therapy as a collaborative process, where I am a guide and expert on change, and you are the expert on yourself. That means I honor your knowledge about you, your internal experiences, your past and the wisdom that is available already – often with just a little help. Mindfulness is a practice of non-judgmental observation of the present moment, which can bring us more into touch with the reality of things and can help create space in the hard to look at places. Somatic (or body-based) therapy is about learning to pay attention to your body in order to bring into focus more nuanced layers of experience.
Using these tools, I compassionately and effectively guide my clients towards more self understanding, kindness and self trust. You might find through the therapy process a different way to be you in the world – perhaps a more authentic, healthy you. Therapy can reveal answers to issues you’ve struggled with for decades, or it can make that big, scary, awful problem feel more like a distant memory. Ultimately, I aim to support you in finding your way through life’s issues, in a way that honors your journey and respects the ways you’ve found to get by so far.
Issues I have experience supporting