What is it you most want for yourself?
Every session will begin with your intention for yourself, for your session, for how you want to be experiencing your life. I will stay loyal to this intention of yours throughout the session. From there, we will explore together what is getting in the way of your desires.
Here are three core experiences of our work together:
1. Being Met Without Pressure to Perform
Together we will slow things down and work with what is happening in real time. There is no expectation to be “regulated”, insightful, or productive. Your responses make sense, and we get curious about them together. I will guide you through brief check-ins with the body, as the body often knows what the mind hasn’t yet articulated. We will explore recurring themes such as thoughts, emotions and sensations, as these offer clues to deeper developmental impacts. This creates a living, embodied opportunity to experience safety, agency, and connection differently – not as an idea, but as something felt.
2. Understanding Survival Strategies Without Pathologizing
Rather than trying to eliminate symptoms, we get deeply curious about the automatic ways you learned to protect yourself using strategies shaped by early relationships and experiences. When these patterns are met with curiosity, and come to be understood and honored for their wisdom, they no longer define your sense of self. New choices can emerge organically, and focus goes to your inner resources and capacities. Strategies of survival become options rather than default behaviors.
3. Reconnecting to Disowned Emotions
Together, we will reconnect to feelings that were too overwhelming to contain in the past, expanding capacity to remain present and embodied. We will explore what these emotions are communicating, acknowledging the wisdom in their messages. Reconnecting gradually to these emotions releases stuck energy, allowing clients to move on, to experience the world with fewer projections, reconnect to aliveness and inherent worthiness, and increase capacity for living from the heart.
I know that a counselor can only journey with you to emotional depths they have explored in themselves. My understanding of wounding and healing is shaped by my own intergenerational inheritance, and profoundly disruptive life experiences. I came to therapy believing my feelings didn’t matter, only to discover that my inner world carries wisdom – that my emotions, longings, and authentic desires are not obstacles to overcome, but essential guides in shaping a life that feels true to me.
What helped me most was working with someone who didn’t treat me as something to fix, but met my fear and protective patterns (i.e. a lot of deflective humor) with patience, curiosity, and respect; consistently guiding me back to my own agency.
With genuine gratitude for having received that kind of care and support, it’s what I now offer others.
I’m committed to my growth as a therapist, deeply engaging in my own inner healing work, ongoing training, and supervision. I continue to expand my inner spaciousness and clinical knowledge so what I offer remains thoughtful, ethical, and responsive. I am honored and humbled to participate in the journey of becoming.
