About My Clients
If you're looking for a healthcare provider to come alongside you in your healing journey and offer you tools to empower you in your recovery and growth, we'll make a great team! We'll work together to clarify your psychiatric diagnoses and choose the evidence-based treatments that feel like the best fit for you, including medication and/or non-medication modalities. We'll bring together your expertise on you and my psychiatric expertise in a partnership leading to healing and growth.
My Background and Approach
With 13 years of nursing experience in a variety of medical and psychiatric settings, with clients of all ages, from children & adolescents to geriatric populations, I care for the whole person, mind, body, & soul. Once we establish your psychiatric diagnoses, I have a wide range of evidence-based treatments I am trained to offer, including medications to target your most bothersome symptoms &/or non-medication treatment modalities. I use the non-pathologizing treatment approach of Internal Family Systems (IFS), guiding you toward deeper self-knowledge & internal harmony. I also bring insights, techniques, & coping skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), & Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) into our work together to empower you with a variety of tools for you to utilize in your healing & recovery, all in conjunction with the work you're doing with your individual therapist. I'm here to support you!
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Inside each of us exists an innate presence, the Self, which is who we are at our core, without all the defense mechanisms (aka "protective parts") we pick up along the way. The Self exists as part of our own individual Internal Family System, alongside the parts of us that are wounded and the parts of us that have developed to protect the wounded ones and/or extinguish pain. With Christianity as the mother tongue of my spirituality, I believe the Self is created as good, carrying the Imago Dei, the image of God. I've experienced first-hand how harmful religious systems can create wounds or deepen childhood attachment woundings, and I can walk with you through recovery from religious trauma. I also believe that all bodies are good bodies. I do not pathologize any body sizes, but rather empower you to heal your relationship with your body, food, and movement. I value your autonomy above all else. You decide what's important to you. You decide what your path to healing looks like.