My therapeutic philosophy combines Humanistic (Person Centered and Existential) with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. I believe in providing an empathetic and unconditionally supportive space that allows for processing and linking what has happened in the past to the present to support shame reduction and empathy toward one’s self with practical psychological tools that people can take with them moving forward and have agency in their recovery. Over my years as a therapist, I have seen how many of my clients are living in a deep state of shame, core fears that are not being addressed and core yearnings that are not being met. This is what I am passionate about in helping people in my practice now. My training has supported me in this work greatly, but ultimately it has been my work with clients over the years and my own experience of struggling with mental health and being committed to my own recovery, that has really informed my work and ability to support clients moving forward.
I am passionate about working with people who are struggling with perfectionism and anxiety and those who find themselves in that “middle ground” of recovery or struggle from disordered eating/body image issues where maybe it is not at the point of meeting clinical criteria, but it is causing suffering in their life.
I worked as an adolescent therapist for many years and am now a parent myself, which has greatly increased my passion in supporting parents newly postpartum and/or struggling with various stages of parenting that can really test one’s well being and sense of themselves.
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