Therapeutic Approach
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Virtual Individual Therapy
Individual therapy offered virtually fosters a strong therapeutic relationship by providing a comfortable and accessible environment for clients, allowing them to express themselves openly without the constraints of traditional settings. Additionally, the convenience of virtual sessions can enhance consistency and engagement, leading to more effective therapeutic outcomes and deeper connections between the therapist and client.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on understanding and integrating the various sub-personalities or "parts" within an individual, each with its own perspectives, emotions, and roles. By fostering a compassionate dialogue among these parts, IFS aims to promote self-awareness, emotional healing, a sense of internal harmony, and self-trust.
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EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a trauma-focused therapy developed in the 1980s , theorizing that distressing memories can become “stuck” in the nervous system. By using bilateral stimulation, while recalling traumatic events, EMDR helps the brain reprocess these memories and reduce their emotional intensity. Clients experience decreased symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and distress, gaining more clarity, emotional regulation, new found resolution.
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Rites-of-Passage
This is a framework that outlines the transformative processes individuals undergo during significant life transitions, involving three stages: separation, transition, and reintegration. In therapeutic work, this model can help clients navigate personal changes, facilitating growth by acknowledging their experiences, fostering resilience, and integrating new identities.
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Gestalt & Somatic Experiencing
Gestalt therapy is an experiential form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on the present moment, encouraging clients to become aware of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the here and now. Coupled with Somatic Experiencing, it emphasizes authentic expression, helping clients to recognize and resolve unfinished business from the past, ultimately leading to greater emotional insight and release.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach that views individuals as the authors of their own stories, emphasizing the importance of personal narratives in enabling or limiting identity and experience. By helping clients reframe and rewrite their narratives, this therapy fosters empowerment and reconceptualization, allowing individuals to find fresh perspectives on their problems along with new meanings and ways forward in their lives.
Our relationship matters most of all
If we begin work together and you find that I am not the right fit, that’s okay! Your relationship to your chosen therapist is the biggest predictor to your success in therapy. Should you decide you’d like to work with someone else for any reason, I will help you find someone who is a better fit.