My approach to counseling

I view psychotherapy as an opportunity to hit pause and explore thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and life patterns that have influenced your life choices, moods, and relationships. With increased personal insight, you are better equipped to attain your self-defined goals. Psychotherapy is also a time to develop new skills and methods of coping to reach your full potential and have more gratifying relationships. Through warmth, positive regard, humor, and deep listening, I strive to establish an active therapeutic relationship that provides a safe space for growth.

I used a client-centered, strength-based approach to therapy. Psychotherapy may be brief solution-focused or longer insight-oriented work depending on your goals. My lens for understanding is informed by a variety of theories including attachment, relational, life span, ecological systems, and trauma-informed. I understand and consider intersectional identities. Practice strategies include the use of interpretations, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and anti-oppressive frameworks. In child therapy, I use play therapy techniques interspersed with talk therapy. I work to actively involve parents and guardians in their support of their child through collateral or family sessions.