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Real
Becoming,
The Unfinished Statue
Many clients arrive feeling like a rough block of stone—heavy, immobile, frozen in time, "stuck."
When you first enter therapy, the "stone" represents everything that feels unprocessed, stagnant, and heavy. As we work through therapy, we don't throw the stone away. We can't—it is the material of your life. Instead, we learn how to trans-form it.
In therapy, the process of becoming more whole, or real, isn't about adding something new to yourself; it is often about the sculpting away of the "pseudo-self" to reveal the masterpiece that was always inside the stone.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individuals attend therapy for a range of concerns and presenting issues including:
Childhood Trauma, Attachment Trauma, Heartbreak, Adult Children of Absent Fathers & Mothers, Relationship & Dating challenges, Fear & Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Life Transitions, Self-Esteem, Body Image, Performance Anxiety, Stress, Work-Life Balance, Perfectionism, Moral Dilemmas, Dissociative Disorders, Family of Origin concerns, Emotion DysRegulation, Sexual Trauma/Sexual Assault, Sexuality & Gender, Identity Exploration, Existential concerns, Therapy for Therapists
Couples Counseling
Protecting our Hearts
This is the bridge where the "hard" imagery of the statue meets the "soft" reality of human connection. In many ways, matters of the heart are exactly what the stone is protecting.
When we talk about the stone, we are often talking about the ingrained defenses we built around our hearts to keep them from being broken, ignored, or othered by the ones we want to stay in connection with the most.
I offer couples counseling to partners of all orientations and constellations. Partners attend therapy for a range of concerns and presenting issues including;
Conflict, Communication Challenges, Intimacy & Sex, Pre-Marital Counseling, Family of Origin & Extended Family concerns as a Couple, Infidelity, Betrayal, Family Planning, Relationship Maintenance, Life Transitions as a Couple, Codependency, Co-Parenting, Separation & Divorce, Impacts of Trauma on Attachment, Intercultural Couples
Family Therapy
The Family Stone - Structural Integrity
Families often move through the world like a group of statues carved too closely together—where one person's movement inadvertently chips at another's edges. We move away from the bracing friction of trying to change each other and toward the dignity of separate, yet interconnected, solid ground. We refine the boundaries so that the family isn't a "stony" weight, but a collection of individuals who are grounded enough to be close and connected, without being crushed.
I offer family therapy to family systems of all orientations and constellations, including parent & adult/teen child relationships, sibling relationships, blended families, nuclear families, co-parenting and chosen families. I have a special interest in working with Mothers & Daughters. Family members attend therapy for a range of concerns and presenting issues including;
Conflict, Communication Challenges, Mothers & Daughters, Inter-generational Trauma, Codependency, Family of Origin & Extended Family Concerns, Life Span Adjustments within the Family, Co-Parenting, Separation & Divorce, Family Grief, Adoption
Clinical Consultation
Consultation is a space for us to step back from the "stone" and look at the architecture of the work. Whether you are navigating a complex relational field or looking to deepen your own clinical "Realness," this is where we step out of the 'fog of the work' to see the masterpiece in progress once more.
Community and support are essential to the vulnerable practice of therapy, as we learn and grow in relationship. I am passionate about connecting with other clinicians in offering support and collaboration on case conceptualization, self-of-therapist topics, trauma & relational cases as well as guidance in licensure and professional training in mental healthcare.
