Approaches
I like to integrate a few different approaches to tailor to what serves you best. We respond differently to various approaches throughout our lifespan. The approaches that I integrate all aim to resolve and release suppressed concepts that stem from childhood, ruptured attachment, developmental trauma, and internal conflict. I practice through a blend of psychodynamic, somatic, and integrative interventions.
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Trauma-Focused
Helps you work through difficult or overwhelming experiences in a gentle and paced way. The focus is on building safety before moving toward emotional processing. The goal of looking through this lens aims to incorporate tri-phasic trauma processing, which focuses on building safety before moving toward emotional processing and integration.
Attachment-Focused
Looks at how early relationships shape the way we connect today. By understanding attachment patterns, we can strengthen our ability to trust, feel secure, and build healthier bonds with others. The goal of looking through this lens is to learn how early relationships shape the way in
which we connect to/within ourselves and with others today.
Psychoanalytic
A deeper dive into your internal world--examining subconscious inner conflicts, dreams, and hidden motivations. This approach works toward long-term insight and emotional attunement and growth. The goal of looking through this lens is to garner a greater understanding or your internal world, examining intrapersonal conflict that emerges out of suppression/repression and protective defenses. This is the lens that houses the various approaches that I incorporate. Unresolved conflict and free association processing is the basis of what psychoanalytic theory aims to extract into consciousness.
Psychodynamic
Explores how past experiences and subconscious patterns influence our present thoughts, patterns, emotions, and behaviors.
The goal of looking through this lens is to foster greater self-understanding and dispel of old cycles.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
This is an evidence-based method for processing and re-processing trauma. By using guided eye movements or bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps the brain re-process painful unresolved memories so that they feel less overwhelming and come to be stored in the proper area of the brain. EMDR is meant to shift visual imagery and desensitize us not from feeling our emotions, but from the distress of having to feel uncomfortable emotions connected to traumatic memory (fight/flight response). I can utilize EMDR for an array of symptomatology.
Ego State Therapy
This lens acknowledges the multiplicity that we all share and aims to involve our various parts of Self that carry unique emotions, narratives, and roles. Ego State Therapy helps these parts feel seen, communicate, unburden, heal, and work together in harmony. I also utilize EST for those that experience structural dissociation (i.e., dissociated parts of Self; OSDD/DID).
Relational
Reinforces the healing nature of a safe container within relationship. Wounds that were born relationally can only heal relationally, through the presence of safe relationships.
This lens honors the most important tool for healing…safe relationship and attunement. Reinforcing the healing nature of a safe container within the therapeutic relationship lives at the heart of my practice, as this is that, which helps to increase the internal safety that we all crave.
Polyvagal
This is the Theory of the Autonomic Nervous System, which helps us to understand how our ANS carries trauma and serves as the blueprint for our existence and how we take up space in the world/respond to the world. It is the guiding organ for detecting cues of safety and cues of threat. We can re-wire our nervous systems through processing the stuck implicit (non-visual and non-chronological memory) that our nervous systems carry.