I have a personable approach to the counseling process and I believe it's important that you are treated and feel like a person seeking help and not seen as a diagnosis or being defined as one trait. Using a holistic lens I practice a blend of IFS and Brainspotting, supported by Attachment Theory. These modalities are best fit to address long-standing issues that regular talk therapy cannot always access. At this time I am only working with adults 18 years and older.
About IFS (Internal Family Systems)
IFS, also known as “parts work” is a way of differentiating various responses, urges, and beliefs as “parts”. Some parts, or protectors, keep us busy to avoid emotional pain, while protective parts try to punish us through shame to keep us small and out of any risky situation. IFS is way to deepen the relationship with yourself, finding purpose and compassion for past traumas and emotional wounds. I guide and teach you how to mindfully separate and embrace this parts so they are not running the show. Ultimately connecting and healing core wounds (known in IFS as exiles also known as shadow work). Below is a link to a great interview and demo from the creator of IFS Richard Schwartz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtussFaYC0&t=508s
About Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a brain/somatic based therapy that helps release built up trauma that gets stored in the body. The process taps into a natural mechanism we all have, essentially, where we look affects the way we feel. I like to think of an emotional junk drawer, we so easily throw things in it when we don’t yet know their purpose. Much like a junk drawer, the oldest items are often wedged in the back. Sometimes it’s hard to reach those areas with only talk therapy. In Brainspotting the body heals itself in a neurological process, much like our own immune system, healing us without our conscious choice to be healed. Please follow the website listed to learn more about Brainspotting.
Areas of focus may include:
-Difficulty managing or accessing emotions
-Gender transition
-Depression
-Unresolved traumas
-Anxiety
-Bipolar disorder
-ADHD
-PTSD
-Unhealthy relationships
-Divorce
-Sexuality
-Changes in stage of life
Common goals may include:
-Improving self-esteem and self-acceptance
-Managing and understanding emotions
-Building and maintaining healthy boundaries
-Creating meaning in self, school, work, relationship, etc.
-Befriending and appreciating your body and its sensations
-Changing how the past can affect the present and the future
My current availability
I am currently accepting new clients