Individual Therapy

There are times when we are suffering and need help figuring out how we got here and how we can get through these tough times. I so admire the courage it takes to seek help. Discovering the meanings we make of our internal and external experiences can bring more aliveness in our every day life. I love being a guide and an empathic partner in your exploration. Foundational to our work is the birthright of your value and worth-your basic goodness. There is more safety in inquiring into what is painful when we start from there. 

I am deeply passionate about this work: learning how to accept that the unacceptable happened and harm occurred. Then we inquire into how you can learn to love and care for yourself and the world around you. How do you live with the grief of terrible losses? How do you live through your day when you are feeling down, disconnected or agitated? Together we gently explore what resonates most deeply within you and find ways to generate more of that in your life. This is a dance of attending to your present experience while also noticing the now outdated ways you may have learned to survive chaotic experiences. I help you find a little more kindness towards yourself in meeting and transforming these outdated strategies of survival.  

I am also committed to naming how outside systems bigger than you contribute to your suffering. This naming can bring relief from self-judgment and honor your lived experience. Systems of oppression contribute to the pain of some folks more than others. I approach with humility these experiences and make a place for expression and healing. I see the system of white conditioning and the disconnect to self this system causes white folks and the harm it causes to BIPOC. I name and attend to ways this shows up in suffering and dysfunctional patterns. 

Naming and understanding what has caused suffering allows for the opportunity to really grieve: to grieve losses in your life, what might have been and what should have been. Many current cultures don’t allow much time or space for grieving. I tend to any need for the transformative practice of grief. 

My commitment is to help guide you in a return to your inherent wholeness.  Sometimes to survive we compartmentalize parts of our emotional life. Making meaning of the ways you learned to survive can bring you into a healed relationship with yourself: your re-connection to self also brings healing to the greater psyche/soul and the physical world around you.