Mental Health and Recovery Counseling | Washington | Florida
Now serving clients over telehealth in Washington state & Florida
Currently not accepting new clients.
“Sometimes it’s necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.”
Our present moment is often a by-product of all our past experiences expressing in a single moment. Through curiosity and examination, therapy can help you uncover how you got to be the way you are today, where you are today, and help find ways to create a more authentic life built out of choice and freedom vs. reaction and deprivation.
The work of therapy helps to build trust between the mind and the body again, opening up the cues the body once gave that, at the time, were not safe to feel and have been silenced since doing so.
This space of therapy helps create, reclaim, and discover your authentic voice, the voice you were meant to have before whatever it was that happened, happened.
Therapy can also be a place for transitions, learning how to face endings and end well in their hardness and in their beauty. This therapeutic work asks you how do you want to end, and can you end well, even in the midst of the pain of that ending? Be it a relationship, a season of life, a job, a physical place or object or even facing end of life, how do you want to say thank you, and no more? How do you want to rage and grieve and then bless that ending so that you may be open to receiving, building, something new, the next stage in your journey?
With my clients, I take a non-judgmental stance, using curiosity, and collaboration as we walk through your stories. In my approach with clients, I value being transparent, offering direct communication and reflection of the here-and-now. I am known to be wise, kind, compassionate, and a fierce hoper.
Modalities
I view healing as holistic, addressing issues of mind, body, and spirit and healing communication between all parts. To support this, I draw from a variety of modalities.
The type of therapy I offer draws from psychodynamic therapy which believes that it is within relationships we begin to heal. This lens of therapy uses the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship to help uncover interpersonal styles of relating, noticing patterns of past experiences and emotional response play out in the present, while helping to make meaning. I am deeply rooted in Allender Theory, a theory that attests to the brokenness of the world, our createdness, our longing for something better, and the return to who we were made to be. I take a trauma-approach lens with all my clients that places the focus not on a concise, cohesive narrative, but on the present moment and the manifestation of trauma and its impact. When appropriate, I utilize LifeSpan Integration and Internal Family Systems, approaches aimed to address fragmentation; Somatic Experiencing, using the body as a resource when emotional or cognitive processes are limited; and the lens of Feminist Therapy, a lens attuned to the ways culture and systems oppress. I provide LifeSpan Integration, EMDR, Trauma Sensitive Yoga, and Clinical Hypnotherapy, when and if needed. I am also informed by attachment theory and various liberation theologies.
Areas of specialty include:
Trauma
i.e. complex trauma, PTSD, recovery from domestic violence, spiritual abuse
Grief, loss, and bereavement
i.e., sudden and unexpected, terminal illness
Addiction
pre-contemplative to sustained recovery
I am happy to collaborate with other providers including treatment settings, physicians, alternative medicine practitioners, esoteric and energy healers, and psychiatrists.