Therapy for Trauma Survivors
Negative experiences are remembered with sorrow, while traumatic experiences are often forgotten. Trauma explains what happens inside of you as a response to your mind not being able to manage or make sense of what is happening to you. It is at this very moment, where you experienced your first dissection between your body and mind.
The work we will do together is about understanding that the feeling states that were isolated off during a traumatic event are still very alive today in many of your experiences. Once your mind created for you an escape route from something too painful to bear, you have found yourself utilizing it against your will at any sign of real or imagined threat. This has affected your ability to trust, experience safety in intimacy, enjoy precious moments in life, and make decisions about even the smallest things. Once life went off the track for you, everything changed.
Together, we will remind you that the troubles you have had in your life are not because of something broken inside of you, but because of what happened to you, and that your mind is (and always has been) good.
“You’re not a fragile little somebody. It’s good to face every reality. To stop fighting and hiding. To remember that a feeling is just a feeling—it’s not your identity.”
– Edith Eva Eger
Therapy for Helpers
You are someone who feels like the best version of yourself when you are caregiving. However, your herculean empathy for others often conceals your deepest fears and struggles with closeness. As long as you continue giving, you quiet the need to ask the question: who are you when you are not helping others?
Psychotherapy grants you access to the hidden places so you can start to untangle how you came to be you. And now you don’t have to go to these places alone anymore. Your willingness and interest to learn about yourself is what makes you the most capable of helping others the most. You didn’t even realize that unfurling is the greatest gift of all.
“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”
― Bruce Perry
You have always thought, felt, and sought deeply. You write, you create art, you love to learn, and you never. stop. going. You turn to your craft and exploration at times when your body and mind are in distress (and also when they are not.) Being supernatural in your functioning sometimes camouflages how inadequate you truly feel at times. Being in constant forward motion means you never have to sit with being still. And because your drive is the best kind of ferocious, it can outrun the opportunity to know a deeper part of your undiscovered self.
What is it that you have been desperately searching for?
Therapy for Seekers
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Clinical Supervision: an inauguration to your herd.
As a budding new therapist, you are as unique to me as the patients who entrust you.
As our partnership grows, I will be able to recognize what lights you up and drives you. I will introduce you to your blind spots. It won’t be long before you recognize that in moments of your stuckness with cases that challenge you, we are venturing down the road of your own undiscovered conflicts.
A good supervision will rely on equal parts vulnerability, humility, scrutiny, and gusto. And before you know it, you will have a better sense of yourself and your good gut. Being a supervisor is a dedication and tribute to my personal and professional work. I am so thankful to offer you the precious gift of learning to faithfully trust yourself as a clinician.
The kindest intervention is to see it, say it, and pronounce it real.
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Talking about a monetary value for something so abstract as the therapeutic process is an odd negation. Money is a hot issue in my office (and all offices!) Yes, this is important, and yes, this will cost you money (and also time.) An investment in yourself is an undertaking, and I can assure you, you will get what you pay for! I will always talk about fee and payment before beginning a treatment to ensure that you feel confident in your ability to invest fully. I would be lying if this was a one time conversation. The topic of money will keep coming up as we continue our work, as it should. We can learn a lot from these conversations.
That being said, I know that everyone comes from a different financial place. I take the following insurances: BCBS, Aetna, and Cofinity. I also see people who pay privately. I am happy to answer any questions you might have about fees and payment ahead of time to help put your mind at ease.
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I will see you approximately 1-4 times per week. The frequency of sessions will be an ongoing conversation and always something I encourage you to ask questions about.
You might wonder the meaning behind a more frequent and consistent psychotherapy. You might presume that coming more frequently is based on how significant your troubles are or how in need you are of help, yet neither of these factors are criteria for a multiple time a week psychotherapy. A more frequent, consistent, and intensive psychotherapy isn’t always something you might feel ready for right away, but once the work begins and we get to know each other, you will notice that coming more frequently offers a different kind of experience, one that allows for a deeper eunderstanding of the uniqueness that makes up your internal infrastructure in a more comprehensive manner. This process will lead to greater attunement to yourself and deeper awareness and integration of your interior life. In short, I do it because it works!
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Since March of 2020, I have been conducting all psychotherapy sessions via Telehealth. The possibility of offering in person sessions continues to be in the works.
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For supervision services, whether you are fulfilling your required licensure hours, or seeking an opportunity to deepen and expand your clinical skills, this mentorship will provide you with a richness to your growing clinical practice as the devoted clinician I am certain that you are. There is no better way to hone your personalized therapeutic style than by working closely with someone who is dedicated to knowing you. For me, this partnership is pure joy!
The fee for supervision consultation will be determined by factors such as your educational, career, and financial standing. We will talk about this prior to beginning our work together.
I have been providing supervision services via Telehealth since March of 2020, but I am continuously revisiting opportunities of in person work.
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