What's My Approach to Therapy?
*IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY* Calling all Sensitive Hearts. Who feel everything on the deepest level, who cannot bear all the pain and injustice in this world. Who feel terrified and deeply ashamed. Who struggle to be their true selves in relationships. And who have wild imaginations, vivid dreams, amazing capacity to love, connect, create, to see life with childlike wonder and awe… Who may exist outside binaries and feel like aliens in this capitalist system. Who may have gotten diagnoses of bipolar II, adhd, c-ptsd…
My fellow empathic, expressive, deep thinking, deep feeling beings...
Come take a seat in my little corner of the world. Where it is warm, safe, and quiet. Still, gentle, and slow. Caring, silly, and tender. Where you can cry, rage, move and dance, heal, and rest. Where you can find solid ground beneath you, in the presence of another Sensitive Heart.
I use Internal Family Systems a ton and other experiential, mindfulness-based, relational, expressive, somatic, trauma healing approaches. I draw on ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) Loving Reparenting skills and philosophies a lot too.
My Practice & Services
I am with you, I am you, and we can do this together. The political forces in power want to keep us powerless and separate but I believe we have revolutionary love on our side. I want to support you to access this force of Infinite Love that can heal your trauma, support nourishing, beautiful relationships, and carry you through anything.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
Shame. Grief. Rage. I walk right alongside you as you express, release and heal. I know what it is like to carry such a heavy load. It is safe to feel it all with me.
How Psychotherapy Can Help
It is not going to save this world but it is where you can learn how to save yourself.
Important Factors for Choosing a Therapist
Definitely listen to your body ~ if you feel warmth, relief, relaxation, release, resonance, energy ~ follow that. If there is constriction, uncertainty, trust yourself. Keep searching until you feel that true, full, embodied *Yes*
How My Own Struggles Made Me a Better Therapist
I am no better than you, or anyone. We are all in this together. Fellow travelers. I have struggled with the longstanding effects of trauma and have been through terrifying, excruciating times. Heaps of dysfunction. I survive many days, and feel so grateful for the days that I thrive. I save my own life, with the help of Love and Life forms all around me, one day a time. So I understand the depths of pain you are in. Perhaps tsunamis and volcanoes of it. I can join you in that storm. Together, we can find safe, calm, warm sunlit shores to rest on.
My View on the Nature of 'Disorders'
I really do not know what we would all be like in a world free of imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, or any violent system of oppression. But here we are. Disorders very often come from trauma. *It is not what is wrong with you, but what happened to you.*
And yet, they can be gateways into healing, community, and self-understanding. I believe they are best held very lightly and not identified with too much, because they can limit us ~ and we are miraculous, mysterious beings who are constantly changing and evolving.
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