My Approach to Helping
The world can be overwhelming right now. Many of us, including me, are scared and unsure about what's to come. And unfortunately many of us are alone with these complicated feelings. If this sounds like your experience, I encourage you to call me to see if we'd be a good fit. It's more important than ever to have a place of security and safety - and maybe one that can also bring hope. You can expect from me a strengths-based, trauma-informed, feminist, and anti-racist approach. My training is heavily 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. Group therapy can also be a more affordable way to get help. If you're curious, I encourage you to call me for more information.
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.
