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About My Clients
I work with clients on issues including anxiety, depression, shame, racial trauma, childhood trauma, PTSD, chronic pain/illness, concerns about the state of the world and more. My clients have a diverse range of racial and gender backgrounds and tend to be in their 20s and 30s.
My Background and Approach
Sometimes what is needed is support with self-care strategies such as orienting or slow, deep breathing to help with anxiety. Sometimes it might help if we talk about communication strategies. Often though, the roots of our issues our deeper and require longer-term work that might look like emotional embodiment work, or inner child work, or integrating different parts of ourselves that are in conflict with each other. I have trained in cutting edge somatic modalities that incorporate understanding of attachment theory, trauma, race, and neuro-science and have healed from them myself and am confident I can help you as well. At the same time, I not am perfect in any way or still have lots of to learn in life. I will check in with you in our process to make sure you feel like a solid YES to what we are doing and will attune to any issues or concerns you might have.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe in the fundamental decency and goodness of every human being. I also belief different ways we may not act optimally often are for very good reasons and often come from good, albeit often misguided, intentions. This gives me confidence that any person who I see can make progress in their healing and enjoy life more. I also recognize that many groups of people have been ostracized by our society more then others whether that be on the basis of class, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other significant markers of social location. Keeping this in mind in therapy is very important to avoid the western therapy bias of assuming everything comes from childhood and one's family of origin.