My Approach to Helping
My approach is strengths-based, trauma-informed, feminist, and anti-racist. My approach is also informed by attachment and psychoanalytic theories and techniques. My goal and hope is that we work towards building a safe environment in which you feel truly understood. From the strength and safety of our relationship together, can come challenge and, ideally, long-lasting change.
More Info About My Practice
In addition to individual and relationship counseling, I also work with new therapists around case consultation. And I lead groups and believe strongly in the power of group therapy to facilitate long-lasting, deep change.
How Psychotherapy Can Help
Oftentimes it can be difficult to truly appreciate your strengths. Maybe it's even hard to know what they are. Psychotherapy can help you notice them, as well as the patterns within yourself that make them hard to see -- that keep you stuck. It's as if we need help holding a mirror up to our stronger, healthy, happy parts. Once your strong parts can be fully appreciated, we can begin to work on the parts of you that have been stuck - unhealthy patterns that just keep occurring.
How My Own Struggles Made Me a Better Therapist
When my father died in my early 20s, I knew I needed help. I had just moved to New York City on my own for graduate school and didn't know anyone. I had no where to turn to face the loss -- never mind all the feelings about living in a new city and dealing with the strains of graduate school. Complicating factors, my father died suddenly -- there was no warning. Now as a therapist, I am able to make space for deep and profound loss. We often can only find this in people who have also struggled in life. I hope that through my experience I can help make space for you - perhaps when others in your life don't seem to be able to.