How I Work

I work from a psychodynamic perspective, which means you explore your unconscious thoughts and feelings. It also includes looking at how your past experiences may impact your current life. I guide clients deeper into understanding their unconscious processes and implicit beliefs.

I work experientially, which means the client is actively involved in the treatment. I help clients come back to their present experiences, even as they explore painful memories. Using mindfulness, clients can draw their attention inward and be able to self-study.

The therapist-client relationship is a unique and dynamic partnership that requires trust and honesty from both parties. We are working together from a place of curiosity and non-judgment. As a therapist, I am relational, calm, and present and practice loving presence.

The body is a key part of our work together because it is where emotions and feelings are experienced. It is often filled with preverbal experience and implicit memory, wounds we may have never explored or had the words to do so. Staying with the experience happening in the body allows those unconscious processes to become known.