Focus on emotional safety, recovery and well being. Trauma focused therapy supports living with relief from the symptoms of trauma. This type of therapy can help with:

• Learning skills to manage and work with anxiety, rumination and triggers from past trauma.

• Understanding and getting relief from survival beliefs “I’m not enough” “I am out of control” and protective impulses (avoidance) that have served you in the past but are no longer working as a way of life now.

• Using somatic therapy techniques can help with regulating the nervous system and developing adaptive responses to triggers in your present context.

This is a safe and knowledgable space for alternative consensual and diverse sexual practices. Sex positive and affirming therapy in my view honors our sexual expression (which includes asexuality and permission and choice to engage in non-sexual pleasure exploration) as a vital part of being human and there are a multitude of diverse sexual practices that can support one’s personal growth and identity exploration. Conscious exploration of sexuality may take the form of role play, power dynamics, sensation play and other forms of consensual play that can provide diverse dimensions of meaning. Areas of focus in therapy can include:

• Desire discovery and manging desire discrepency in relationships

• 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.

ENM/poly affirming and knowledgable therapy means you no longer have to educate your therapist about mononormativity and suffer well meaning concern that is judgemental of your relationship orientation. Poly affimring therapy includes 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 multiple relational systems.

• Get support with healing and navigating societal marginalization as a ENM/Poly identified person.

Healing and processing wounds from past relationships can be helped by feeling safe enough in a therapeutic relationship to embody vulnerability with another. Relational therapy specifically helps with this by creating a 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 and connected to yourself while staying in relation to an other.

• Emotional regulation and feeling steady while expressing yourself truthfully and vulnerably, especially when experiencing emotionally charged themes.

Feel supported to author your own experiences and also make sense of extreme states and feeling safer in the world. 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.

Therapy includes

• support with visions, hallucinations, paranoia.

• navigating states of high anxiety and fear of recurrence

• experiential work outside the office to support managing triggers and feeling safe enough to be in the world

• making meaning of your experences which might be feeling confusing or hard to make sense of

• trauma informed care when paranoia and AH/VH hold content from past trauma

• recovery from medical trauma

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.

• 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. I provide supportive therapy, psychoeducation, CBT, DBT, CFT. I see LGBTQA+ Trans/NB/GNC youth age 14+ Adolescent therapy can include:

• help with navigating identity, emotions, beliefs about themselves and the world.

• emotional regulation, skill building and problem solving support

• managing safety and healthy age appropriate risk taking

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 includes:

• sensory awareness

• movement and focused embodied attention.

• Help with regulating your emotions

• Accelerating inner clarity and help with making lasting changes in therapy session