Psychotherapy
Trauma-Informed Individual therapy
Therapy is a protected hour just for you, away from the action of life, for thinking and feeling. I will help you find the words for what troubles you and for getting clearer definition of the contours of your life. I will support you with integrating the past so you can stop reliving it and with finding new meaning in the story of your pain. I’ll help you to see yourself with more understanding and respect and to feel coherent, alive, and connected.
Working with me can be like a laboratory for closeness, an experiment in how you bring yourself to the task being together. Lending this special quality of attention to the therapeutic process can give rise to insight that is alive and immediate and make tangible in real time the patterns of your relationship to yourself and to others.
Areas of Strength
- Difficulties in relationships
- LGBTQ+ experiences
- Trauma and C-PTSD
- Family dynamics and intergenerational trauma
- Systemic oppression
- Self-acceptance, self-worth, self-image
- Emotional dysregulation
- Existential questions about meaning, purpose, direction
- Anxiety
- Dissociation and DID
Couples therapy
I work with bonded relationships between two adults or more. That includes any relationship that is intimate, that sustains us, and that occasionally requires work: cozy old marriages, new romances, grown-up siblings, best friends, polyamorous constellations, professional and artistic collaborators, roommates, kink partnerships… The deep, real conversations that need to happen can become easier in a therapeutic setting.
Across relationship work, I regularly hear the same essential underlying longings for safety and aliveness. We’re wired to seek both – a sense of ease, security, and belonging – as well as adventure, freedom, and play. It’s no wonder we get stuck sometimes, when our innate human needs present such an enticing paradox. Boosting our intimacy and independence often involves tending to the influence of the past and unravelling the habitual ways of being and relating that we learned would protect us, but ultimately keep us stuck.
Areas of Strength
- Emotional intimacy
- Attachment security/insecurity
- Communication
- Boundaries
- Sex and eroticism
- Betrayals, infidelity
- Relational and sexual trauma
- Queer and trans relationships
- Ethical non-monogamy
- Inter/multiracial relationships
- Power imbalances
- Allyship, solidarity
