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In my work I aim to support individuals along their path towards clarity, integration and self-acceptance, as well as to ease suffering.
My clinical approach incorporates a few formal therapeutic modalities and is tailored to meet your needs.
Perhaps most prominently, I move from both humanistic and insight oriented practices, focusing on developing a space where we can be seen and cared for - not just the parts of us that are readily available, but the whole of us. This is often the hardest challenge in therapy: becoming openly vulnerable, inviting softness, and recovering a sense of compassion for ourselves.
I am also particularly aligned to working from an attachment-based lens, placing emphasis on and centering relationships.
Lastly, it is important to note that I am firmly systems-based, which means I take specific care to consider and connect to the many layers that make up a person’s reality and lived experience – the micropersonal, the relationships, our communities, cultures and the sociopolitical context at large. I believe an intersectional approach is a necessity.
WORK WITH ADOLESCENTS
My approach with adolescents begins with the general practices described above. In addition to which, my work with adolescents takes particular care towards honoring this specific time of life.
Historically, the “task” of adolescence is to develop and form personal identity. Which means, in essence, to utilize newfound independence and increased awareness to help situate oneself in the context of the past, present and potential futures.
Understandably, this is often a complex and fraught stage, rife with pressure, conflict, uncertainty, and insecurity. Depression and anxiety, along with other mental health conditions, commonly arise and/or reinvent their presence during this time.
In creating a supportive relationship, steeped in positive regard, non-judgment, and authentic connection, therapy can serve toward clarifying an individual’s internal compass and sense of self, which can help young people as they come to terms with understanding their feelings, reactions, emotional sensations and experiences, defining and articulating their needs, and in navigating the world at large.