Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW, LICSW
If you can be curious about it, you can change it. Online therapy in WA & OR. In person in Vancouver.
Client Status
541-525-0034
Rate: $75-$165
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2018
Languages: English
My clients find it hard to identify their needs. They people-please and don't know why. They’re creative, funny, often artistic, but intrusive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors limit their self expression. A voice inside is always yelling "do something!" but never says *what* to do. This is painful. So they numb out, blank out, get irritable. It affects their relationships in annoying ways. They come to therapy down on themselves. WTF is going on? They know there is a better way to be and feel.
Specialties
A humanistic approach means that you’re going to experience me as being extremely curious about what it’s like to be you in this world right now, and that as you explore yourself in deeper and deeper ways I’m going to be right there with you, helping you process those findings. The humanistic approach also means that you’re going to get a real live person in the room, rather than a therapist with a blank face behind a notepad.
Being a humanistic therapist informed by mindfulness means that as difficult experiences arise in session, I may invite you to do something other than 'talk' about them. For example, we may pause to get really curious about what's going on in the body. While I believe that mindfulness can be life-changing when practiced intentionally, we won't necessarily practice it in every session (unless you'd like to). Rather, the therapy session in and of itself will act as a kind of mindful dialogue.
Therapy through a psychodynamic lens recognizes that 1 - painful patterns and experiences in the present likely have roots in past experiences. 2 - These past events inform our present selves outside of our awareness. 3 - It can be healing to bring these past events into awareness.
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