Collaborative Care, Tailored to Your Needs

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Using a blend of trauma-informed therapy approaches, my role is to support and guide you towards healing self-acceptance. 

In therapy, we'll pursue deep healing alongside practical, sustainable change. Through trauma-informed approaches like EMDR and insight-driven work, we’ll process past experiences that still shape your present, helping you not only understand yourself more fully but also feel empowered to shift how you show up in your life and relationships

Together, we’ll build on the strengths you already have, creating a more sustainable and peaceful way of living. If you’re just beginning to wonder whether it’s possible to slow down and prioritize yourself, I want you to know—it absolutely is.

PRIMARY MODALITIES

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Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

  • EMDR Accesses your brain's natural ability to process and heal itself from traumatic memories and is a highly collaborative model– one of my favorite aspects of EMDR is helping you develop tools and resources that resonate with you to help you regulate during EMDR sessions and in your daily life. Together, we develop these emotional regulation and grounding skills that allow you to safely and effectively re-process past memories using bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or auditory tones). Bilateral stimulation helps unlock the traumatic memories stored in your brain, allowing them to be processed and integrated in a more adaptive way so they are no longer distressing.

    Through this process, you become less triggered by past distressing experiences; EMDR helps the memory become desensitized. My clients often express they feel more neutral about the memories we reprocess or that it has lost its “charge.” As the reprocessing occurs you’re able to reframe past experiences, and develop more adaptive beliefs about yourself. By addressing and resolving the underlying trauma, EMDR empowers you to let go of core negative beliefs such as “I’m not good enough;” “I am a failure.” and embrace more positive beliefs, leading to greater self-compassion and confidence to navigate challenges in the future.

  • Clients love the mix of flexibility and structure of EMDR, finding it helps them shift towards more positive beliefs in a shorter amount of time. They report meaningful connections and a greater ability to empathize with their younger selves during reprocessing, and experiencing faster healing from trauma compared to traditional talk therapy without needing to share in-detail about past traumas.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

  • IFS offers a gentle, grounded way to understand what’s going on beneath the surface—and bring more clarity and calm to your inner world. We recognize there are many different "parts" that make up who you are—each with its own emotions, beliefs, and stories. These parts might include:

    • The perfectionist who never rests

    • The inner critic who questions if you’re doing enough

    • The people-pleaser who placates to feel safe

    Rather than judging these parts or trying to make them go away, IFS helps you understand what these parts are trying to protect you from. Often, these parts are doing their best to help you cope with past pain, anxiety, or old wounds—even if their strategies don’t always feel helpful now.

    In therapy, we’ll work together to:

    • Explore how your thoughts, emotions, and body sensations are connected

    • Identify what each part is trying to protect you from—often old pain or unhealed attachment wounds

    • Learn how to approach these parts with compassion, not criticism

    • Rebuild trust with yourself and your inner world

    As we build a more compassionate relationship with your internal system, you’ll begin to:

    • Soften the intensity of these protective parts

    • Witness and heal the pain or trauma they carry

    • Re-parent wounded parts with warmth and care


    From this place, you no longer have to feel at the mercy of inner patterns or parts that take over. Instead, you can feel more whole, more in choice, and more at ease within yourself.

    • Greater awareness of the mind-body connection

    • Self-compassion and big-picture understanding of patterns

    • Healing from the ground up & opportunities to reparent your inner child

    • Mindfulness skills and the ability to better navigate overwhelming emotions/parts

    • Deeper self-discovery and a kinder internal dialogue.

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Therapy with me is a highly tailored experience. Other approaches I integrate include:

  • Attachment-Based: Explore and understand how your attachment style and attachment wounds impact you in the present (e.g. impact on dating and relationships, how you may cope with stress/pain, and unlearning unhelpful relationship patterns). 

  • Strengths-Based: Identifying and building on current strengths you have to help you reach your goals; helping you identify what you’re good at and point out areas where you can continue integrating and developing these strengths. 

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Develop mindfulness skills to help you better recognize when you’re starting to feel upset or anxious and tools to help ground you. Focus on reframing and challenging unhelpful thought patterns/ beliefs. 

  • Culturally Sensitive: Honoring and exploring how your cultural background intersects with your mental health. Understanding the impact of intergenerational trauma, microaggressions and discrimination on mental and emotional well-being. Exploring how you can balance honoring family and culture while also meeting your own needs. 

  • Systems Approach: Understanding and exploring how multi-layered systems impact how you view yourself, relationships, and the world  in multiple facets from the larger, Macro systems (e.g. societal, cultural) to the smaller, Micro ones (e.g. nuclear family system).

MY PRACTICE VALUES

  • Curiosity

    Curiosity is the touchstone of my work, the thoughtful “why?” that encourages deeper understanding. By embracing curiosity, we foster an environment of openness and growth, where every aspect of ourselves is met with understanding and acceptance, allowing us to extend compassion towards all of our parts.

  • Compassion

    Compassion creates an environment of acceptance and empathy. Rather than judging the parts of us we want to hide the most, compassion allows us to go beyond what is at the surface and address the root of why these parts show up for you.

  • Creativity

    Valuing creativity in my practice is part of how I honor each person’s uniqueness. Building on the strengths and resourcefulness you already possess and finding what truly resonates with you allows me to tailor our work to meet your individual needs.

  • Collaboration

    One of the most profound ways we can bring healing to deep relational pain is through authentic relationships and partnering together to co-create meaningful and sustainable paths toward growth. I know therapy is an investment in multiple ways, so I approach our work collaboratively to help you get what you need to thrive.

Let’s work together to forge your path towards hope, confidence and ease.