Relational

An essential part of effective therapy is the relationship between therapist and patient. Relying on another person for help is vulnerable and brings out past ways you’ve learned to rely on others to care for you and meet your needs. Together we will collaborate to understand your difficulties and build a deep relationship to meet your goals. By focusing on your feelings and experience in the therapy relationship, we will help you build your capacity for meaningful relationships outside of therapy.

Emotional

We are wired to experience deep emotions throughout life. When our emotional experiences are rejected, neglected, punished, or dismissed, we come up with ways to avoid our feelings to avoid further pain. However, our avoidance can create patterns and automatic reactions that create symptoms and cause suffering. We focus on emotions in treatment to help bring patterns of suffering to light and give you a chance to resolve the deep emotional wounds in a reparative relationship and decrease symptoms.

Body-Centered

Our bodies hold our emotional wounds just like physical ones. By focusing on your physical experience, we will help you learn to regulate your anxiety, locate and understand your emotions in your body, and identify the emotional energy that drives you to action. I integrate this trauma-informed and somatic-oriented approach in order to help you experience more peace in your body and help you connect to yourself in a way that builds your ability to be in control.

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)

My therapeutic approach is heavily informed by my training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). ISTDP is an active, powerful, and effective form of psychotherapy that utilizes experiences in the therapeutic relationship for deep and meaningful healing. ISTDP is an evidence-based form of treatment that has been proven to be effective for many emotional and relational concerns. It is focused on helping to identify and counter the automatic ways you’ve learned to avoid painful feelings and experiences which keep you stuck and suffering. By helping you connect to buried emotions and experiences, rather than avoid them, you can reunite to the embodied expression of these feelings, experience relief, build deeper intimacy with others, and gain peace within yourself.