Therapy for individual adults & Couples

  Dealing with daily symptoms of anxiety or depression is exhausting and defeating. Breathing techniques and thinking positively aren't always the answer for everyone. I am not a behavioral therapist, so I do not try to give you magic tools to fix your symptoms, leaving you to feel like an anomaly when they don't help to solve your symptoms overtime. I understand that anxiety and depression are conditions that are not cured but managed and treated, and believe that true symptom reduction happens through deep understanding of the self, experiences, body and brain. 

  How often do you find yourself thinking or even believing negative, critical things about yourself? We intake a lot of messages through our experiences and the world, sometimes harmful; shame can be one of those messages. Shame tells you that you're bad or unworthy and can settle deep within you for extended periods. Self-compassion is known as the antidote to shame, but not many of us are taught how to understand and support ourselves in compassionate ways. Often we can offer compassion to those that we love around us, but shame tells us we can't extend that same love to ourselves as well. I specialize in working with people who have learned to believe that they are not valuable, unlovable, or incapable. Self-compassion work can be transformative in separating yourself from shame and finding connection to your innate worthiness as a person. 

 When something deeply disturbing or distressing happens to you, sometimes you can't just "get over" it. You may find yourself dealing with continuous issues that can stick with you all day or come over you like a wave, leaving you to feel out of control with your body or mind, pulled back in time, or greatly insecure within yourself. My focus in trauma treatment is to help people deeply understand these mental, emotional, and physical effects they are experiencing and learn how to better cope and manage life alongside them through new ways of being.