My Approach to Helping
I have spent almost a decade working with various populations in the community from various backgrounds, ages, socio-economic statuses, gender-variant, and culturally diverse clients, helping them recognize and reveal their best selves through a variety of evidence-based practices tailored to their specific needs. Through my years of experience not only as a practitioner but as a leader in the community, I have learned various techniques to support people in an empathetic but also challenging way to move forward in their lives to find peace of mind, happiness, a sense of self-control, self-respect, and safety in their relationships with themselves and the world around them. I work with people struggling with balance, and feeling a sense of meaning and fulfillment. Whatever their particular struggle, from interpersonal issues, trauma, changes in life, struggle with identity, emotive control and expression, and self-sabotage to more extreme expressions of those issues resulting in self-harm or suicidal thoughts, my goal is to help every person that I come in contact with build a life worth living. This is accomplished through targeted interventions tailored to that person, their concerns, personality, and strengths. I'm a certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapist who also has training in various modalities such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as more non-directive therapies like self-directive art. I take a direct approach that brings each client along, including processing, tools, and education to build independence. I specialize in care that is direct but empathetic. I believe that kindness and honesty combined with training and experience is the mix that helps clients that have been stuck move beyond their pain, confusion, and frustrations into a life and mindset that creates the space for happiness, peace, and a sense of joy in their everyday.