How I Work

When we enter the world, our first experiences of self are through our relationships and reflections with other people (usually our parents or caregivers). Our sense of self is intimately tied to other people (and the histories and structures we are embedded within). Thus, it makes sense that later on in life, as we continue our growth and search for self, we can make use of other people in this process. In fact, we often need other people in order to spark, understand, and integrate. Therapy can be one of the places where this happens. 
 

I believe that "good enough" therapy is based on clinical skill, "fit" between the client/patient(s) and the therapist, and a safe--but also vital--enough space where thoughts, feelings, and experience is worked on collaboratively. This is a partnership in which we work towards your desires and difficulties by way of discovery, curiosity, self knowledge, experience, courage, resilience, and simple skill building if necessary. 
 

I am committed to providing services that honor individual difference, diverse backgrounds, family forms, relational forms, and lived realities.
 

Therapy can range in length, frequency, and form. We work with words, images, and dreams, but also in pauses, silence, and attending to different registers of experience. Most people I work with stay for a year or longer and meet at least once a week. Having done this for work for a while now and with many different people, I trust the process and allow each treatment to unfold as needed.