Dear Future Client

You will find healing here.

All my services are centered around helping you increase your emotional literacy (how well you can name, regulate, and accept your feelings) and minimize your emotional distress.

Through our sessions, I will help you with many things.

You will better understand what you learned about yourself through your upbringing and heal negative narratives and painful relationship cycles.

We will explore your relationship with feelings and develop healthier coping skills for you to self-regulate and process your feelings.

Our sessions are all about centering on your progress.

Please note that our therapeutic relationship is a relational dynamic that prompts development, safety, healing, and progress.

All clients are best served and make the most progress when they feel seen, safe, and aligned with their therapist. When you stand confidently in who you are, it inspires and permits others to do the same.

Most therapists do not bring any of their own assumptions, personality, or thoughts to sessions. However…

There are a few assumptions I bring to my therapy room.

First, all people deserve to feel loved and safe because we are all worthy of love and belonging.

The second is centered around feelings: they are neither good nor bad; feelings communicate important information about our needs, wants, and boundaries. Feelings demand to be heard, so when we learn to listen, validate, and give space to our feelings, their intensity diminishes. As we unpack your feelings and experiences, things might feel a little worse before they get a lot better.

Third, most of our present problems are connected to deeper core wounds. Change is possible, and I align myself with the part of you that wants to heal.

Fourth, we exist in societal systems and power dynamics that greatly impact our daily lives. I recognize that each client brings in their own set of lived experiences, and everyone’s interactions with trauma, oppression, and societal systems look different. These systems tend to bring about shame, but shame cannot survive if we share our stories in safe, empathic places (I’m looking at you, fatphobia, racism, and hetero-patriarchal ideology!).

Finally… Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQIA+ individuals deserve safety. Listening to and learning from voices and stories different than our own makes us more human and more empathetic.