Focus on emotional safety, recovery and well being. Learn skills to manage and work with anxiety, rumination and triggers from past trauma. Therapy can help with understanding our survival beliefs and protective impulses that have served us in the past but are no longer working as a way of life now. From there, somatic therapy can help with regulating the nervous system and developing adaptive responses to triggers in your present context.

Rest knowing this is a safe and knowledgable space for alternative consensual and diverse sexuality. Sex positive and affirming therapy means support without judgement. Areas of focus can include: desire discovery, healing through sexuality. Coaching for dynamic lifestyle relationships, identifying communicating desires, needs and boundaries. Support for deepening intimacy, self acceptance, consent, sexual orientation and sexuality over the lifespan.

Experience therapy that is not mononormative. ENM/poly affirming and knowledgable therapy can include support with: cultivating fulfilling relationships within alternative systems/structures. managing jealousy, attachment anxiety,  gaining clarity about your desires, feelings, needs, boundaries and effectively communicating with involved parties in the system. Get support with healing from and navigating societal marginalization being ENM/Poly identified.

Healing and processing wounds from past relationships can be helped by feeling safe enough in a therapeutic relationship to embody vulnerability with another. Therapy specifically helps with this by creting that safe container to support you to access and share yourself at your own pace. Therapy specifically can help with self-abandonment or “loosing one’s self” by utilizing the therapeutic relationship as a space to notice and practice staying true to yourself in connection. Therapy can also help with emotional regulation to feel steady while expressing hard feelings or emotionally charged themes.

Feel supported to author your own experiences and also make sense of extreme states and feeling safer in the world. Therapy includes support with visions, hallucinations, paranoia. I have specific expertise with early prodromal, CHR, episodic experiences. Approaches include CBTp, CFT, feeling safe approach and family education and support see more regarding modalities here).

Families who are caring for a family member with mental health challenges deserve support too. Areas of focus include: support with caregiver burn out, psychoeducational sessions. I provide support with distress from navgiating systemic challenges, decision fatigue and expanding your support system.

Adolescents often need a space to feel heard and connected to an adult outside of the family system. Adolescent therapy can include help with navigating identity, emotions, beliefs about themselves and the world. I provide supportive therapy, psychoeducation, CBT, DBT informed skills and problem solving support. I see LGBTQA+ Trans/NB/GNC youth age 14+

When talk therapy doesn’t feel like enough.Somatic Psychotherapy centers the body experience as a source of meaning making, self-understanding and connection to your emotions. Somatic work utilizes sensory awareness, movement and focused embodied attention. This can help with regulating your emotions, accelerate inner clarity and help changes in therapy be longer lasting.