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My Approach to Helping
I believe that there exists in all of us a spontaneous movement toward connection, health, and aliveness. I bring a calm, reassuring presence and a spirit of curiosity and connection into the therapy room. I provide a queer-affirming, sex-positive, and trauma-informed space for all genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, and bodies. Using a relational model, I work to support vitality in your relationship with yourself, with others, and with the world.
I am trained in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) for addressing developmental trauma and adverse childhood experiences. This is a depth-oriented, non-pathologizing model that gets to the root question of: what is it that you really want for yourself, and what is getting in the way of that? Many who have experienced complex trauma have trouble with traditional talk therapy because although coping skills make sense logically, it's hard to leave with a "felt sense" of change. NARM is what's known as an experiential model, because instead of just talking about ways to change, I help create change within you in the therapy room and through our client-therapist relationship.
This model is especially useful in my work with parents, because when you’ve experienced childhood trauma or attachment wounds, parenting can trigger feelings you thought you’d left behind. Maybe you find yourself easily overwhelmed, irritated, or shutting down in stressful situations with your kids. I help parents, especially those with their own history of trauma, navigate these challenges and create more connected, fulfilling relationships with their children.