Individual PSYCHOTHERAPY
You are not defined by the issues that bring you to therapy. Therapy is a journey to better understand and work through the issues that impact your intimate, social and or work relationships. Let's work together to address the issues that prevent you from finding a work-life balance or care properly for your health and well-being. And when you are ready, let's explore the impacts of traumatic experiences. It is my goal to help you connect the dots of your inner experience to your daily struggles. These realizations can be frightening, but they are also powerful motivators for change.
During therapy, we work together. I give feedback, pose challenges, and make observations that you are encouraged to think about, reject, or elaborate on. This type of open dialogue helps you work on your emotional awareness and understanding. Better awareness and understanding enhances confidence and the ability to connect with others in healthy ways.
Couples
Couples work is intense and it is very different than individual therapy. It is not unusual that one person is driving the couple towards therapy. Even with this power dynamic, I will teach each of you how to be present in therapy and with one another. I will help you learn to listen to one another with empathy and to truly partner in your marriage. The process can bring deeper understanding, painful truths and even uncover lost joy.
If you are a couple that wants to learn to work better together, learn to separate respectfully, or curate desire and arousal, know that these goals require generosity and the willingness to be vulnerable. These skills can be learned with a skilled therapist. Are you ready to get what you want out of your relationship?
Together, we will explore how to better communicate and get you and your partner’s needs met. Relationships are work, and with hard works comes great reward.
Queer, POLY and Gender Affirming Therapy
The feeling of being flawed or different leads to shame. Avoidance of the feeling of shame can cause anxiety. Affirming ones sexual, relational or gender identity is where we start in sex therapy. I create a safe place to explore your needs and how to move through a world that is often hostile to differences of any kind.
Together we will explore your experience with compassion and care. I will ask you to pay extra attention to yourself during and between our sessions. You will start to notice physical sensations that are associated with your emotional expression. I will help you connect with these feelings. This awareness or mindfullness will help you beyond the current issue and will be a tool you can use for your entire lifetime.