Individual Therapy

You deserve a safe place to be yourself.

In individual therapy, I generally use an interpersonal and honest relational style. I like to utilize the relationship between myself and you to teach me about how you relate to others. I believe building trust in our working relationship and using it as a healing tool. In my role, I will provide you with feedback and knowledge using open and direct communication while also being sensitive to your feelings and expressing compassion.

This can certainly be a fine balance. In more technical terms, theoretically, I use an integrative approach that incorporates psychodynamic, interpersonal, and attachment-based conceptions with cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, and distress-tolerance intervention and skill development. I pay attention to not only your words but also non-verbal communications and the energy in the room. In individual therapy, as with all of my work, acknowledging one’s sociocultural context, various identities, and any experiences with oppression, discrimination, and/or injustice is crucial to both building trust and also understanding your life experience and your experience with the world at large.

Throughout our work together, I like to conduct regular “check-ins” about how treatment is going for you, what’s working, what’s not, and inviting you to share feedback with me. If you are creative or into any form of art, please feel free to bring those things into your session and express yourself in those ways, as they add to healing. From the beginning, we will create treatment goals to guide our work together while I also recommend remaining open to what we may discover along the way.