Individual psychoTherapy

Feel like your true essence has been buried under layers of expectations? Our individual psychotherapy sessions are designed to help you rediscover and re-embody your core identity. Using restorative, liberating, and body-centered practices, we'll gently peel away the constraints and narratives that no longer serve you.

This is a space to question fixed mindsets without judgment. To mess up, restart, and lean into embodying new ways of being. Because healing isn't a checklist - it's an ongoing journey of integration and growth. Together, we'll nurture those tender seeds of transformation, allowing them to blossom into a realigned life.

Whether you choose weekly or bi-weekly 50-minute sessions, we'll work at your pace to cultivating the fertile ground for your most vibrant, authentic expression to emerge.

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who i work with

I work with people when they’re feeling stuck, lost, or groundless. This might show up in habits like substance use, disordered eating, difficulty sleeping. Some people feel overwhelmed, angry and irritated all the time, with feelings of helplessness. People feel a tension between being themselves and some unknown sense of who they feel they should be. Sometimes they see a disconnect at work and feel burnt out. Shame is a common theme that comes up for people I work with. 

 I work with people who tend to be perfectionists or people pleasers, caregivers and helpers of the world. People who feel successful in some areas of their life but struggle in building relationships. I work with people who hold marginalized identities but also feel othered in their communities. If this feels like you, we might be a good fit. 

AREAS OF FOCUS

From this sacred lens, I approach a wide range of focus areas with non-pathologizing care:

  • Depression/Anxiety

  • Complex Trauma/PTSD

  • "Personality Disorders"

  • Historical/Intergenerational Trauma

  • Relationships/Relational Trauma

  • Vicarious Trauma/Burn Out

  • Sexual Harm

  • Substance Use/Harm Reduction

  • Biracial/Multicultural Experiences

  • Sex Positive

  • LGBTQAI2S+ Identities

  • Re-entry/Post Incarceration Healing

  • Brainspotting

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My practice honors that we cannot be reduced to isolated "conditions." You are a holistic being, and your paths of growth and struggle emerge from the intricate tapestries of your identities, experiences, ancestral narratives, and individual/collective traumas.