I am an educator and mental health professional with over eighteen years of experience working with people. I teach both psychology and history at the college level. I am fascinated by how our brains and bodies function and how we build awareness about our lives and the world around us.
Because my background is rooted in the fields of both history and psychology, my work tends to focus on exploring how we source our assumptions, how we fashion theories about life, and how we move within self-created and socially imposed narratives.I am rooted in the tradition of existential phenomenology, which means that my focus is often trying to understand a client's lived experience and the way they consciously (or unconsciously) make meaning in their lives.
My primary interests are in: mindfulness and embodied experience, attachment, holding a sense of self in relationship, building a sense of creativity and hope in one's life, and growing the strength to face difficult and ambivalent parts of our lives.
Because my background is rooted in the fields of both history and psychology, my work tends to focus on exploring how we source our assumptions, how we fashion theories about life, and how we move within self-created and socially imposed narratives.I am rooted in the tradition of existential phenomenology, which means that my focus is often trying to understand a client's lived experience and the way they consciously (or unconsciously) make meaning in their lives.
My primary interests are in: mindfulness and embodied experience, attachment, holding a sense of self in relationship, building a sense of creativity and hope in one's life, and growing the strength to face difficult and ambivalent parts of our lives.
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I approach therapy as an opportunity for clients to learn, reclaim, and discover their own sense of identity and story.
I believe that the therapeutic encounter is built on trust.
Therapy takes time and necessitates an openness and patience from both the therapist and the client.
As time allows for relationship and insight to emerge, I hope to help clients foster more authentic relationships with others and to have the courage to look inward and become their best self.
I believe that when a person confronts their way of creating meaning in their own life, or re-thinks their relational connection to others, they are allowing for a more integrated and whole sense of self to emerge.
I believe that the therapeutic encounter is built on trust.
Therapy takes time and necessitates an openness and patience from both the therapist and the client.
As time allows for relationship and insight to emerge, I hope to help clients foster more authentic relationships with others and to have the courage to look inward and become their best self.
I believe that when a person confronts their way of creating meaning in their own life, or re-thinks their relational connection to others, they are allowing for a more integrated and whole sense of self to emerge.
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