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About My Clients
I strive to meet clients where and as they are. Historically I connect and work especially well with people who present with complex trauma, people who use humor to cope, neurodiverse people, especially women (extra especially eldest daughters) with any kind of mother wound and have a tendency to intellectualize. I have a passion for those areas, self-compassion work, boundaries, family of origin work, trauma work, grief work, and self-acceptance work.
My Background and Approach
I have my LPC in Minnesota, working towards LPCC. working towards being EMDR trained and expressive arts certificate. I am familiar with and use interventions from DBT, ACT, IFS, and Mindfulness work built on a very strong person-centered foundation. Much of our mental health system, especially for insurance, has a medical model (symptoms, functioning etc.) and I can speak that but ideologically I subscribe to a holistic non-medical person-centered protective view. From that lens I strive to make therapy a safe, accepting, and empowering experience that allows people to move through at a pace and in a way that doesn't judge 'good' or 'bad' but rather honor what has gotten you to where you are now, identifying where you want to go, how you want to get there, and support your journey to that place pulling from interventions, theories, and approaches that feel most aligned for you.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My top 5 personal values are fun, equality, intuition, authenticity, and growth. These inform my work in and outside of session. I am a fat (using fat in a solely descriptive, body positive, non-derogatory way) able bodied cis-gendered bi-sexual white woman which carries quite a lot of privilege with it which I am on the journey of understanding as I do my own anti-racism work. I am very passionate about LGBTQ2SI+ community and rights, as well as suicide prevention and have years of experience within both populations personally and professionally. I am working diligently to be a safe person for black, indigenous and all people of color, however, I honor that there are experiences I can sort of comprehend but cannot truly know or fully understand. Historically white women in particular have been a safe space for white men, white women and basically no one else at least not when push comes to shove. I am passionate about working within my own communities to change that.