Welcome!

Trauma therapy: 

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I love working with folks who have experienced trauma, because I know there is hope for healing. The first and most important step in trauma work is establishing safety. Before going into trauma work, I ensure the individual has resources, or ways to cope with the memories that could arise. Then, we do the work of reprocessing the memory with the goal of updating your brain to the present moment to ensure it knows the memory is over, and you are safe now. I work with both single incident trauma (something that happened once like a car crash), as well as complex trauma. Complex trauma means you have had chronic, repeated or prolonged traumatic events often starting from a young age. It may be hard to put words to, and that is okay.  We can take our time making sense of your experiences together, at a pace that feels safe for you.

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Some of the modalities I am trained in to support people in healing from trauma are somatic work (somatic is a fancy word for the body), parts work, EMDR, and attachment. I am EMDR Certified which means I got trained in EMDR then did two additional years of trainings and consultations. If you have questions about any of these I am happy to answer them on a consultation call. 

Sexual Health & Wellness: 

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I have been trained to work with presenting concerns around sexual dysfunctions and wellness. I believe that pleasure is a human right, but all too often we are not taught how to access this. Sometimes, internalized messages around sex in our culture can make people feel that they are "dysfunctional", which can worsen sexual symptoms.

I work with clients around topics such as low desire/low libido, differing libidos in couples, pain during sex, erectile dysfunction, sexual trauma impacting current relationships, understanding and expressing needs, sexual fantasies, understanding sexual identities, intimacy concerns in couples and more. I enjoy doing this work both with adult individuals and couples.

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Couples Therapy: 

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I work with couples with various concerns. I work with a big variety of couples: married and unmarried, monogamous and polyamorous, couples who recently met and couples who have been together for decades, gay/straight/anywhere on the sexuality spectrum.

Some of the topics that I support couples with are communication, addiction in the relationship (substances, porn, spending, etc), sex and intimacy concerns (differing desires and libido, etc), reestablishing intimacy, and future planning (financial, parenthood, etc).

I work to bring in the things that do work within the couple to use as strengths to help cope during more challenging times. I use elements from attachment therapy, and use an emotionally focused lens, which means I put more emphasis on the way a topic makes you feel than the details. 

Addiction: 

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I work with folks struggling with a dependence on a substance or thing (porn, spending, food, etc). I view dependence on things as a coping mechanism for some sort of distress that is arising. My goal is to support clients in identifying what the distress is trying to tell them: maybe an unmet need, a desire that has not yet been fulfilled, or a truth not yet realized.

The goal is to get to the root of what the addiction is trying cope with and to establish a life where the addiction of choice is not longer as powerful. I am comfortable working from a harm reduction lens, which means finding ways to manage use instead of cutting it out completely. The goal of harm reception is to reduce risks and harms whether or not abstinence is someone's ultimate goal.