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   Areas of focus:

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  • Individual Therapy

  • Relationship Counseling

  • Grief Counseling

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Individual Therapy

​Some areas I have worked with in individual therapy:

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  • Relational trauma (past, present and/or ongoing): ​early childhood trauma; being raised by a traumatized and/or abusive parent or parents; racial and cultural trauma; the trauma of being misgendered

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  • Relationship patterns that are causing troubles: in partnerships, friendships, family systems

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  • Experiences of disconnection from your body, feeling unsafe inside it, feeling like different parts of you are fighting inside; body image issues; feeling betrayed by your body

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  • Depression, suicidality

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  • Anxiety and panic​​

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  • ​Identity and Selfhood:

    • Self-criticism and shame​

    • ​Feeling an "in-between-ness" in your racial, cultural, gender, social or religious identity/ies that can make it feel complicated to reconcile all of the different parts of yourself​​​​​

    • ​Experiences that impact how you feel in your body and in the world--due to: disability/ies, the aging process, shifts in gender/s identity/ies, gender transitioning, questioning sexualities and coming out, life cycle changes, existential crises and changes in belief system/s and/or values, illness and chronic pain​

    • Reckoning with white supremacy, as a white and/or white + mixed race or mixed culture person: recognizing how white supremacy culture shows up in the world, how it shows up in you and your ancestors, and you want to do better​

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Relationship Counseling

I have worked with couples and with adult family dyads (siblings, adult parents and children). I am kink and poly-affirming in relationship work, though I have not yet worked with polycules in my practice.

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Couples:

These are some reasons folx seek couples counseling:

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  • You and your partner are triggering each other all the time, and you feel like your childhoods might have something to do with it

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  • One partner wants more closeness to feel safe, the other wants more distance to feel safe, and this causes troubles

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  • You wish you could express what you need to your partner, but instead you bury your feelings and hide your needs

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  • When you feel vulnerable and want closeness, sometimes you express criticism or rage instead

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  • You're trying to figure out whether or not you and your partner should stay together

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  • You're willing to try and see if therapy might be able to help you sort it out

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Family Dyads:

Some areas I've worked with:

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  • Processing past trauma 

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  • Addressing triggers and unhealthy relationship patterns

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  • Working on setting boundaries

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  • Having a space to express things that are difficult to say to each other outside of therapy

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Grief Counseling

Grief and loss can come up as a result of or as part of a number of transitional experiences, even if positive changes--as well as:

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  • Loss of relationships or changes in relationships due to illness, death, transition or endings

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  • Traumatic loss of loved ones to suicide, or homicide: not having the opportunity to say goodbye can leave us with many unanswered questions and ongoing trauma​

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  • Pet loss: losing beloved animals can have an enormous 

    impact; oftentimes much deeper and more painful than losing a parent or other human loved one. This kind of loss is often not recognized in dominant culture as important. But it is, and the grief is real.

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