Benefits of Therapy

Individual Depth Psychotherapy Can…

  • Decrease symptoms of mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression

  • Provide a safe, culturally sensitive, and inclusive space for individuals to tell their stories and process their experiences and trauma without judgement

  • Improve self-esteem and help individuals cultivate self-love so they feel valuable not for what they do, but for who they are

  • Increase an individual’s understanding of how family of origin issues may have created patterns that lead to dissatisfaction in relationships, and teach them how to break those patterns and develop healthy boundaries

  • Increase a person’s insight into past experiences to develop more self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness

  • Help clients reconnect with and reparent their inner child

  • Quiet the voices of shame, fear, and guilt

  • Lead to more authentic and whole-hearted living

  • Help clients find new ways of thinking and being

  • Provide support with life transitions, difficult times, and daily stress

  • Decrease codependency and lead to more secure attachment

Family/Parent-Child Relationship Therapy Can…

  • Help families deepen their connection with each other without sacrificing the autonomy of each individual.

  • Help families reduce conflict by increasing communication skills of each family member and helping each family member feel heard and valued

  • Create a more nurturing environment where each person can increase their own self-esteem

  • Support parents by teaching them parenting skills.

  • Strengthen parent/child relationships and decrease conflict within those relationships by teaching parents and children emotional regulation techniques and empathy building

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.”

- Carl Rogers

Common Populations I Work With:

  • Adults seeking to understand their attachment styles, heal attachment wounds, and build healthier relationships

  • Women who use people-pleasing, perfectionism, and conflict avoidance as coping strategies for anxiety and want to understand where their anxiety and coping strategies originated, learn to set boundaries, access suppressed emotions, learn to self-soothe, and increase self-confidence and self-worth

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature or Narcissistic Parents

  • Adult Family Members of People with Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Teens struggling with anxiety, depression, or feeling like they don’t belong who want to learn to challenge unhelpful thoughts leading to painful feelings and increase self-esteem and distress tolerance

  • Parents of teens and young adults who are transitioning out of the home

  • Clients with a desire to process past trauma that is impacting their lives in the present

  • Grief and Loss

  • Life Transitions

Other Issues and Populations

  • Domestic Violence

  • Empty Nesters

  • Racial Identity

  • Parenting

Additional Training

  • Emotion Focused Therapy 

    • Working with Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy Workshop 

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals 

    • ICEEFT’s Level One and Level Two 

  • Gestalt Therapy 

    • Year one of Pacific Gestalt Institute’s Weekend Training Program

  • Jungian 

    • A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing: A Window to the Soul through Pacifica Graduate Institute Workshop

Disclaimer: Therapy is not guaranteed to be successful. Progress and success vary depending upon the particular problems or issues being addressed, as well as many other factors including the client’s ability and commitment to develop insight and make changes. Some modalities of treatment will be extremely effective with one client, and less effective or ineffective with another. When a therapist’s treatment approach is not effective with a particular client, it may be necessary for that client to be referred to a therapist who uses a different approach. There may be times when medication is necessary for symptom relief.

Let’s explore how I can support you.