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About My Clients
Are you experiencing PTSD, anxiety, or depression after a traumatic experience? If you have experienced trauma *during pregnancy and childbirth, *due to childhood abuse, *or religious trauma, particularly regarding LGBTQ+ status we might be a great fit. If you picture yourself healing within a supportive therapeutic relationship, we will align well. Most of my clients stay with me for over a year, so consider me if you have a sense that you may need time to work through things.
My Background and Approach
I believe that our experiences form us but do not have to dictate our future. My goal is to help you identify the important relationships that have caused feelings of hurt, abandonment, resentment, or invisibility. We will apply tools to manage your feelings when they become overwhelming. Do you have intrusive thoughts about a terrible experience, or spend too much energy keeping those thoughts at bay? I have devoted the past 20 years to learning specific skills that will ease symptoms of dissociation, emotional reactivity, and post-traumatic anxiety and depression. We will use evidence-based techniques to manage your thoughts and physical reactions to triggers about the trauma. On your timeline, we will explore the trauma together until it no longer causes you deep distress. Then we will explore how you can get your life back on track with the people you love. No one should face trauma alone; let me help.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that what gets broken in relationships can only get fixed in relationships. That is why the therapeutic connection between us matters so much - therapy is a place to experience safety instead of threat, concern rather than invalidation, and acceptance instead of judgment. I have experienced what it is like, both professionally and personally, to watch trauma symptoms like depression, anxiety, watchfulness, and numbing change due to the welcoming concern of other people. My hope is to establish emotional safety with you, and to help you find that safety in other key relationships as well. I believe that marginalized groups such as BIPOC and those in the LGBTQ+ community experience more than their fair share of judgment, discrimination, and exclusion. For this reason, advocacy is incredibly important to me both in the therapy room and beyond. You are welcome to tell me your story of how you've been hurt. We will work through it together.