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About My Clients
I work with clients struggling with guilt, shame, doubting yourself, and/or creating healthy boundaries. We'll begin our process by discussing any relevant past therapy experiences, then move into establishing a roadmap for how future sessions will proceed. I provide specific tools, based on personal interests, to test what skills fit best for your individual needs using a holistic approach. For counseling to be effective, both you and I must be actively involved in developing counseling goals.
My Background and Approach
Person-centered therapy allows you to lead sessions while I help facilitate your exploration, forming the basis of my approach, and I integrate many other techniques such as SFBT or ACT. SFBT may be used to find practical immediate solutions, drawing upon your own wisdom. Throughout our sessions, your life experience and collaborative problem solving will be used to create the solutions you need. Depending on your individual needs, I will tailor the treatment to you by merging therapy practices with your hobbies and daily activities. Homework may be utilized at times to focus on methods of self-discovery and expression. Sessions will focus on subjects such as: self-awareness, choice, meaning of life, strengths/limitations, acceptance, and change. I will challenge you in a caring and empathetic manner to look at yourself in a kind way. I remind you to seek alternative options and strategies for handling life.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a therapist, I won't: Try to fix you, give you advice, tell you what to do, pretend I know more about you than you do, assume what is best for you, have all the answers, or make the hard stuff go away. As a therapist, I will: remind you that you are not broken, give you room to access your own wisdom, support you in figuring out what to do, recognize that you are the expert on your own life, remember that only you know what is best for you, honor that I don't know it all, and collaborate with your on how to make the hard stuff easier to sit with. When you cannot look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark. I believe that sometimes you just need to talk about something, not to get sympathy or help, but just to kill it's power by allowing the truth of things to hit the air. You are not the things that haunt you or the pain you feel, you are not defective or broken; you are human and you have so much more to offer the world than the demons you are fighting.