My Therapy Style
Therapist often use a combination of approaches to support their clients in the most fitting way possible and to use their time together effectively. I aim to continue learning and experimenting with many different techniques as a way to enhance clients experience and so that they can get the most beneficial support offered. With that said, there are a few types of approaches that I tend to incorporate first in our time together to see if they are helpful which all can be briefly described below. However, if we find they don't work for you, we always can just move on and try something else that feels catered to your needs!
Somatic-Based & Mindfulness
Somatice-based work is meant to help clients slow down, process and increase awareness around their bodily experiences and sensations. It also aims to ground people when experiencing dysregulation or discomfort and/or to expand their capacity to tolerate dysregulation so it does not feel overwhelming or overbearing.
Multicultural
Culture is vital to acknowlege in our work as every client has different upbringings, beleifs, lifestyles, values, identities and traditions which impact their relationship to mental health, to others/themselves, and approach to life generally. My goal is not to only be competant regarding culturally related topics in our work together, but to be responsive by integrating clients culture into their healing process throughout therapy.
Narrative
Narrative-based therapy focuses on understanding the stories that one has formed around their own experiences, themselves, relationships, systems, etc. Noting themes and the impacts of stories that one often protectively tells themselves can make room for the ability to rewrite narratives that are more freeing,empowering, and authentic. Even simply just writing how you would like your life story moving forward to be can instill a sense of hope.
Parts Work
Becoming rather common and popular, parts-work identifies and labels aspects of our personality developed overtime by life experiences. These parts often are trying to protect our mind/body from feeling unpleaseant emotion(s) that stems from a past event(s). We would work on compassionately identifiying, processing, and learning how to have a less immeshed relationship with them along with deciphering when they can still be important to implement.
Psychodynamic
While not all challenges can be rooted to our childhood or is it healthy to become overly fixated on assigning blame to them in therapy, acknowledging the impacts from our environment in ones developmental milestones can be the start to releasing ourselves from thoughts, behaviors, symptoms, and beleifs that were formed which may no longer be helpful or relevant to our lives.
Evidence-Based
As a ethical therapist, one should only use modalities that have been been deemed effective through the approach of the scientific-method, compelling evidence, and critqiue. All the following methods, including the ones not listed on this page that I would incorporate, can be empiracally supported through research completed at universities, insitutions, practices, and much more.
Contact Information
I can't wait to get to hear your story and start our work together! If this sounds like it would be a good fit, then take the first step on your journey by scheduling an appointment with me which can be done in many ways found right next to this paragraph (or below if your on your phone)!