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About My Clients
Maybe you can imagine just what you want for yourself, but you get stuck when it comes to figuring out how, leaving you frustrated, embarrassed, or disheartened. That's where I can help, with over a decade of experience in turning hopes into changes.
My Background and Approach
I have a decade of experience using clinical techniques like motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and cognitive and behavioral strategies to facilitate personal growth and change. Therapy is a powerful catalyst, by providing both support and compassionate accountability for making those vital changes. My primary role as your therapist is to help you identify what is working in your life and enhance it, as well as to find what isn’t working so you can determine, with clarity and kindness, what you want to change and how. When you're coming to therapy, you want to feel better--and fast. While I may not have a magic wand (and wish I did!), I do bring years of experience in helping clients identify personalized strategies to find a little bit of relief as soon as possible. This practice, called "behavioral activation," can help you get your footing back, so that it's easier to wrangle some of the bigger issues, like trauma, that may be the cause of your troubles in the first place.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe firmly that we are each of us the author of our own lives, and that we have a right to decide our direction, even as we inevitably face obstacles and griefs that influence and challenge us in unavoidable ways. I have had my own significant mental health and physical health challenges and know what it is like to feel out of step with the people around me. I take great satisfaction in being able to connect with people struggling to find connection in their everyday life and to use our therapy relationship to help them find that connection outside our sessions as well. I love working with quirky clients, with passionate interests or ways of living that don't always make sense to their community. Mental health and substance use problems generally result from the intersection of life experience, upbringing and genetics. These experiences create additional, but not impassable, barriers to crafting a good life and often are the reason we come to therapy seeking help.