Therapeutic Approach

“Psychotherapy must remain an obstinate attempt of two people to recover the wholeness of being human through the relationship between them.” R. D. Laing

I believe in the power of relational warmth, authenticity, and presence to heal. I feel at the deepest level each of us is longing to love and be loved. Relationship is at the very core of our existence, and without attuned, intimate, honest relationships, we suffer. I believe all psychopathology stems from failures of love, or what R.D. Laing says, "violence masquerading as love."

I work with people who have undergone emotional, spiritual, religious, physical, and sexual abuse. These types of abuse are traumatic and cause significant harm to our daily life endeavors, vocations, creativity, relationships, and capacity to feel into and live out of our authentic self.

When we have been abused, we develop unconscious beliefs that we are bad and that something is wrong with us, rather than the systems of institutional power and oppression around us. These unconscious beliefs often drive every aspect of our lives without our knowing it. None of these unconscious negative beliefs about ourselves are true, instead, they are a response to the ways in which people and our culture enact harm and violence.

I am here to begin to attune to this wounding with you. The more you are attuned to the harm that has been inflicted on you, the less power it will have over your life. There is immense freedom born from telling the truth. I will support you in reclaiming your truth, uninhibited by the masks you have had to wear to survive.

My orientation as a therapist is steeped in humanist and feminist psychology. By this, I mean that I actively acknowledge systemic oppression, violence and misuse of power, and the ways this impacts all of us, and especially our psychological health.

I also believe that reconnecting to our souls through art, music, crafts, writing, dance, the more-than-human world, our particular ancestry, is immensely supportive in living a flourishing life, and an act of rebellion to the dominator consumeristic systems we live in.