Approach to Therapy 

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My approach to therapy is experiential, collaborative and slow. We work together to understand which approaches are most supportive of your healing journey. 

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Psychodynamic 

I draw from psychodynamic therapies and feminist psychoanalytic theories to support my clients in deepening their understandings of themselves - their feelings, their thoughts and their actions. In other words, we work towards the "why?" -- why I feel this way, or perhaps, why do I return to these thoughts, again and again. We work collaboratively to understand how past histories continue to impact your present.  

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Somatic

I am an ongoing student of body-oriented healing, which has taught me much about harnessing the wisdom of our bodies to ground, heal and grow. I continue to learn from my own body, the cultural traditions I have arrived from, those I am in community with and politicized practitioners. 

 

I am also currently completing training at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, where I am growing my knowledge of structured, body-oriented trauma therapy. To learn more about the sensorimotor approach to trauma, click here. 

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Creative 

For some clients, arts-based approaches can provide a gentle way to deepen into an experience and gather more insight. Arts-based approaches require no skills as they are experimental and experiential. 

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Political 

I believe that our identities, our lived experiences and the systems we live within matter - inside and outside therapeutic spaces. My work is deeply informed by politicized queer, anti-racist practitioners and organizers. You are welcome to ask me about my political orientations, and how these inform my practice.