Ida Hammer (she/her)

Compassion Focused Therapy is an integrative approach that links mind and body for improved overall well-being. Mindfulness meditation, soothing breathing practices, and compassionate imagery are incorporated into therapy to help nurture a compassionate embodied state that will create an ideal foundation for changing learned patterns and healing emotional wounds.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a modern, twenty-first century counseling modality. As a holistic therapy, CFT takes a biopsychosocial approach that recognizes that our mental well-being is interconnected with our physical and social well-being. With an integrative approach, CFT draws from contemplative traditions, as well as the latest in rigorous science of evolutionary psychology, neurology, human development, attachment theory, and social psychology.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a modern, twenty-first century counseling modality. As a holistic therapy, CFT takes a biopsychosocial approach that recognizes that our mental well-being is interconnected with our physical and social well-being. With an integrative approach, CFT draws from contemplative traditions, as well as the latest in rigorous science of evolutionary psychology, neurology, human development, attachment theory, and social psychology.

Compassion Focused Therapy is a modern, twenty-first century therapeutic framework. CFT takes a biopsychosocial approach that recognizes how our mental well-being is interconnected with our physical and social well-being. As an integrative approach, CFT draws from contemplative traditions, as well as the latest in rigorous science of evolutionary psychology, neurology, human development, attachment theory, and social psychology.

Power and oppression impacts physical, mental, and social well-being. Therapy informed by intersectional feminism recognizes how our personal healing and growth is interrelated with social justice and collective liberation. Positions of both privilege and oppression are addressed in therapy. This includes issues of race, class and ability, as well as gender identity and sexual orientation.

Intersecting systems of power and oppression impacts all of us physically, mentally, and socially. Healing these mental, emotional, and social harms necessitates addressing the intersecting power dynamics of impacting us as individuals and groups. An anti-oppressive/liberation approach to therapy challenges the separation between the personal and the social, and recognizes how personal healing and growth is interrelated with issues of social justice and collective liberation.

You might tend to fault yourself for your difficulties in life. Perhaps you doubt whether you even deserve to be happy. We can often be our own worst enemies and toughest critics. Sometimes that voice in our head can be down right abusive. Difficulties related to shame, self-criticism, and low self-worth are often at the root of issues like depression, anxieties, and other struggles with unwanted emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

Intersecting systems of power and oppression have an impact on our minds, bodies, and relationships. Healing these mental, emotional, and social harms necessitates addressing the intersecting power dynamics impacting us as individuals and groups. An anti-oppressive/liberation approach to therapy challenges the separation between the personal and the social, and recognizes how personal healing and growth is interrelated with issues of social justice and collective liberation.

I have helped hundreds of transgender and nonbinary people in all stages of understanding, exploring, and affirming their gender identities. From coming out to accessing gender affirming medical care to navigating social and interpersonal challenges of transition, including coping with systemic cissexism. You are the only authority regarding your gender identity, and I as a therapist will support you in gender journey.