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About My Clients
My passion is to assist people who desire to get unstuck, be more confident, feel more relaxed, have more direction, connect with others, feel less irritable, increase satisfaction in their relationships, understand their dreams and are looking for meaning and purpose in their lives.
My Background and Approach
I have been providing therapy for residents of the Portland/Vancouver area since 2008. I graduated from Seattle University's Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology in 2005. I am trained in the Existential-Phenomenological tradition which emphasizes the importance of the meaning that each person makes in life and that the path that one takes can only be understood in the context of their unique life experience. Before settling here, I spent 2 years in London and part of that time was spent working as a volunteer counselor for individuals without insurance. Over the past 10 years I have been working in community mental health providing therapy to individuals with low income. I continued to work in this field even after I opened the doors to my private practice in 2014.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As your counselor, I believe I have a lot to offer you, the most important thing being my belief in the power of the therapeutic process. Also, I find it rewarding and energizing to sit with people and their struggles and am humbled by the opportunity to witness bravery and healing on a daily basis. I take a relational approach to therapy which means that I will not operate as a detached observer but as an active participant in your therapy. The foundation of this work is the relationship between you and I and the dynamics that manifest during our sessions as they illuminate and relate to your other relationships. I often use the immediacy of the therapeutic relationship with the goal of increasing awareness and discovering previously hidden processes and beliefs that undermine well-being.
