Therapeutic Approach
My approach to therapy is based on Radical Therapy and Interpersonal Phenomenology. I believe that our deepest wounds are relational and are healed through loving relationships. I did not learn this in a book; I lived it through a relationship with my therapist and mentor, which radically transformed my life and opened up the possibility for me to truly come home to my own skin. Through this relationship, I found that what the world needs most is for each of us to be ourselves.
Grappling with the truth that often those who were meant to nourish our uniqueness into being, forwent the opportunity to love and support us in our flourishing is one aspect of the dark crucible valley of psychotherapy. This is the path of sorrow, heartbreak, grief, and loss. This sorrow reveals the ways we hide out in our lives, the masks we wear, that are often unconscious because of this lack of love. Until we experience a relationship with a person who is genuinely human and invites our humanity, we often stay locked in barricades of prisons and cages, hiding who we are. Yet once we touch the genuine within us, and feel it in another, a spark of the beautiful is birthed, and the life we are meant to live begins to creatively and easefully manifest.
As your therapist, my role is to create a safe and nurturing space for you. I will be present, caring, attuned, and warm, allowing your true self to emerge naturally. I will also be human with you, which could open a portal for you to remember your humanity, too. In this space, your heart may again, come alive!
I have training in techniques and modalities; however, our therapeutic relationship is of the utmost priority to me. Any modality, technique, or tool that is used will come secondary to our connection. If EMDR, somatic tracking, or mindfulness is used in the space between us, it is because, intuitively, the time has called for it.
I want to get to know the beautiful soul that is you.
Reach out to me and remember the resiliency of your heart, reconnect to your purpose, find emotional ease in your relationships, and reclaim your creativity.
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught.” Emmanuel Levinas
