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About My Clients
My clients come to therapy for a wide variety of reasons. Many struggle with depression, anxiety, or past trauma. Others require assistance through difficult circumstances, such as relationship issues, life transitions, grief, and work or academic stress. Others feel lost and unsure of where to go next in life. All of them want relief, and all of them wish to be understood. I strive to help them in an understanding and compassionate way.
My Background and Approach
In my practice, I take a warm, curious, and supportive stance toward helping. I remember that I do not have the answers but can help my clients find them for themselves. Therapy with me is a nonjudgmental, open-ended conversation with a caring collaborator who wants to help you live your life as fully as possible. This often involves identifying aspects of one's life that are not working and thinking together about how to address them. It can also include recognizing what cannot be changed, processing the complicated feelings around this, and coming to a place of acceptance. Some people take the world's weight on their shoulders and are crushed by the burden of that responsibility. Others give their power away to people, places, or things and are trapped by a sense of helplessness. My job is to help my clients develop insight into these dynamics to achieve a healthy balance of responsibility and acceptance.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe everyone has an internal driving desire that pushes them towards healing and living an authentic, fulfilling life. When one is out of alignment with that force, it causes various kinds of discomfort, and listening for that discomfort in therapy can be a powerful guide. This also informs my view that it is my job to help my clients be the version of themselves that they would like to be rather than the version of themselves that someone else would like them to be. I also think that that mysterious desire to live fully leads people to reach out for therapy in the first place, and I am glad that it has brought you here.