My Practice’s Guiding Principles
You have a natural inclination towards health and healing. This inclination is strengthened through support and nurturance.
Cultivate Relationship
Our therapeutic relationship is integral to the healing process. It is a space where you can identify your patterns, evaluate those patterns, and intentionally choose which patterns to continue reinforcing and which to let go of.
Explore Patterns and Stories
Therapy is collaborative and takes effort and commitment from you, the client, and me, the therapist. To me, therapy is like turning the light on in a basement — illuminating all of our boxes (some boxes are ours, some need to be donated, and some never belonged to us). Turning the light on does not create boxes, but allows us to open and sort them. Therapy, like cleaning the basement, can be both challenging and rewarding work.
Interrupt Auto-Pilot
Mindfulness and body-based practices can help us live intentionally and move away from existing on auto-pilot. When we turn off auto-pilot, we increase our capacity for freedom and the ability to make informed decisions.
Honor Your Unique Lived Experience
Therapy (and life) does not happen in a vacuum. Each of us exists inside of and is affected by institutions and systems. Our unique combination of social identities affect how we live in our specific bodies and in the world. All people — any race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, relationship status, religion, size, or physical ability — deserve an accepting, affirming, and compassionate therapeutic experience.