I work with individuals, couples, and families and have experience working with young children, adolescents, and adults. I particularly enjoy supporting families in finding more positive, loving, and effective ways of communicating. I primarily use narrative and experiential techniques, and incorporate elements of solution-focused and other models as appropriate.
Narrative therapy views one’s life as a story. More specifically, a story which each individual is able to edit and rewrite as they desire. Our relationships, previous life experiences, anxiety, depression, and many other factors may make us feel as if we’ve lost control over the narrative of our lives. Through narrative therapy, I will support you in identifying the changes you’d like to make in your own story.
Experiential therapy brings the focus to emotions, particularly those experienced in session. I will encourage you to identify and fully experience the emotions associated with what you bring to therapy. Through this process, you are able to explore emotions in a new way. We often develop buffers and protections against emotions, typically through previous experiences and relationships with others. Experiential therapy allows us to open ourselves to experiencing these emotions in new and healing ways in order to engage in desired growth and change.