Specialization Areas

I collaborate closely with my clients to foster a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships. By gaining this insight, individuals can perceive their challenges differently and develop new ways to connect with themselves and others. My ultimate aim is to help people achieve balance and stability in their lives. While I serve a wide range of people and situations, my specializations include:

• Grief and Loss: Providing compassionate support through bereavement and significant life changes, helping clients process emotions and find a path forward. I also assist in creating personalized grief ceremonies and rituals to honor and process losses.

• Exploring and Affirming Queer Identities: Supporting individuals in discovering and embracing their authentic selves, offering a safe space for exploring gender, sexuality, and identity.

• Difficult Life Transitions: Helping clients navigate major changes, such as career shifts, relocations, or personal transformations, by providing tools and strategies to manage stress and uncertainty.

• Coping with Chronic Illnesses: Offering strategies and emotional support for managing long-term health conditions, helping clients improve their quality of life and mental well-being.

• Anxiety and Depression: Utilizing evidence-based techniques to alleviate symptoms, improve emotional health, and foster resilience and coping skills.

• Polyamorous and Ethical Non-Monogamous Relationships: Guiding individuals and couples through the complexities of non-traditional relationship structures, emphasizing communication, consent, emotional well-being, and skillfully working with difficult emotions.

• Psychedelic Integration: Assisting clients in making sense of and integrating their psychedelic experiences into daily life, promoting personal growth and healing.

 

My Approach

I employ an integrative approach to therapy, blending various therapeutic frameworks to tailor my methods to each client's unique needs. These frameworks include:

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Focuses on the connection between body and mind, addressing how physical sensations and movements influence emotional experiences and trauma.

• Person-Centered Therapy: Centers on empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness, creating a supportive and non-judgmental therapeutic environment.

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy: Explores and harmonizes internal parts or sub-personalities, helping clients understand and heal from internal conflicts and traumas.

• Narrative Therapy: Encourages clients to re-author their personal narratives, empowering them to change the way they view and interact with their life stories.

• William Worden's Model of Mourning: Provides a structured approach to grieving, helping clients navigate the tasks of mourning and find ways to adapt to loss.

• Francis Weller's 5 Gates of Grief Model: Recognizes five areas through which grief can enter our lives, such as loss, ancestral grief, and the sorrows of the world, helping clients process and integrate grief in a holistic manner.

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Combines mindfulness strategies with behavioral techniques, encouraging clients to accept their thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with their values.

• Karla McLaren's Languages of Emotions Model: Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and working with emotions as vital resources, enhancing emotional literacy and regulation.​​