About Me

Hello!

I became a psychotherapist because I understand that life can be very challenging and I have benefited from therapy myself during difficult periods of my life. I believe having support to navigate painful life circumstances or to come to understand and intergrate your past into your present life, can accelarate healing. The path we choose to take to the relief we desire can itself change us. We long for connection and understanding. It can be hard to find sometimes and even harder to ask for, but when we do it can be transformative.

My training and clinical perspective is humanistic - to understand and grow ourselves (self-actualization) and the importance of how we go about getting there, heavily influenced by Internal Family System (IFS) and trauma-informed. I have completed Level 1 and Level 2 of IFS training.  I’m also very influenced by Buddhism/Mindfulness practices as well as body and breathe work. Throughout my schooling, various clinical roles, and continued training, I have had professors, mentors, therapists and colleagues who supported me not only in my education and training but in my own healing and growth. In Buddhism there is the concept of dependent co-arising which assert in the most basic terms that we can’t rise alone - we must do it together.

Our pain and struggle have tremendous wisdom for us, however we can easily get lost in our thoughts and feelings. When we feel safe, get still and become curious, they can teach us a lot about: why we’re really hurting (is there something deeper going on?), our hopes and desires (what is our deepest longing? what’s missing?), and give us direction (what is the path toward fulfilling our dreams or discovering our life’s purpose?).

Healing work requires self-compassion and a curious spirit which exists in our Essential or True Self, which can be obscured or burden by painful experiences and beliefs (which often aren’t ours) that keep us hostage.  Therapy can help us illuminate our inner landscapes and parts or aspects of us that can create suffering.  We can stop beating ourselves up and instead build trust and strengthen our relationship with ourSelves and others. 

It’s easy to lose perspective and not really be able to see or feel where we are, which is right here in this present moment. Instead we can get discombobulated by our past or caught up in concerns about our future. Here we can find our breath and ground our mind and body. We begin to understand how often we are lost in the past or worried about the future and how we can compassionately bring ourselves home to the present where we find awareness, insight and choice.

I look forward to supporting you on this journey of self discovery.  

My style is very relational, compassionate and client-paced. When it’s time to pick up the pace it will happen because a foundation of trust has been created. I’m aware it can take tremendous courage to be vulnerable and I want my clients to feel safe and comfortable in their ability to engage in therapy.