My primary goal in working in mental health is to put myself out of a job. Given that each of us intrinsically know what we need to heal and grow, my approach to psychotherapy is to couple your expertise of being you–your reality and lived experiences–with my skillset, in order to collaboratively work towards achieving your goals. Rather than leading, I walk alongside you in our work together, refining the techniques that you bring with you to therapy and teaching you new ones, so that you learn to become your own therapist. I’m a big believer of “take what works for you, and leave what doesn’t” when it comes to therapy. In our work together, we’ll use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); ACT allows us to foster compassion, bravery, and commitment to self in the service of living a full and enriched life, in spite of discomfort, pain, and challenges that arise whilst trying to live it. I have also been extensively trained and supervised in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAT/KAP), and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Additionally, I am a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) clinical trainer. Outside of my own therapy, other ways I heal look like recipe testing baked goods in my kitchen, convincing myself that there’s no such thing as “too many” plants and subsequently becoming overwhelmed when I get home and have to figure out where I can fit *another* plant, curled up on my couch watching anime and conspiracy theory documentaries, trying to figure out which planet conjuncts my eighth house, and (most likely on the ground, hurt laughing) re-learning how to roller-skate, which is much more challenging than I remember it being.
