Therapy
The process of knowing ourselves—healing and creating change—comes with time.
What can therapy be?
Therapy is what you make it. And can become a place over time where we can be less alone in holding and exploring the thoughts and emotions that play on repeat, that become overwhelming, and that leave us lingering in unanswered questions.
A place to learn more about ourselves, explore who we are, and our relationships. A place to support curiosity within ourselves. It can become a place where over time, we gain new or different perspectives, and where these new perspectives can support us to form ideas and try new things. This might be how the dialogue within our own heads sounds, how we deliver and receive communication with others, how we learn to self-advocate, or how we get closer to our personal goals or make a change.
A space for more reflection, giving voice to parts of us who may feel scared to say “the thing” out loud, and get some support in talking around “the thing” before saying it. It can also serve as place for identifying and strategizing, planning and organizing our thoughts, worries and plans. Therapy can be a place for forming connections internally and, with others. It can be a place where we confront what has previously been avoided, and form understanding over what we have confronted. Therapy can become much more than just talking and having someone to listen.
What’s it like to work with me?
I lean towards unpacking and exploring what is said on the surface. I also have a part of me which likes to strategize. I like thinking through boundaries and how to support people to identify theirs, and communicate them. I follow your lead and ask what your looking for in a given session. If you’re not sure, we’ll decide together what direction to go. I draw upon a variety of approaches including psychodynamic, relational, Internal Family Systems (IFS). I aim to work from a trauma informed, gender affirming and anti-racist framework. This means that I’m thinking about the world we live in and the experiences and relationships in daily life, impacted by the spectrum of privilege, marginalization and personal cultural context.
I do a lot of asking questions and listening, and offering reflections back. Over time, and as I get to know you more, my questions may evoke more or different emotions and will be intended to help you, and us together, draw further connections about yourself and the things you may want to understand or want to approach differently or make changes around. I’ll offer different perspectives and invite consideration for those. Some folks want to be “challenged” by therapy. You are the one who will know if this is happening for you or not, over time. You are the expert on you, your relationships and your life and that will remain true from before you begin therapy, to taking part in it, to when you decide to end our work together. I am here to support you along the way.
Socially-conscious, trauma-informed, gender-affirming & sexuality-inclusive care for you and your relationships.
Services
Individual & Relationship Therapy:
Thursdays (virtual / potential in-person)
Fridays (in-person office)
Gender affirming support letters available.
*People interested and currently receiving therapy services are entitled by law to receiving a “Good Faith Estimate” upon request. For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, or how to dispute a bill, visit: www.cms.gov/nosurprises