Methodology: How I Work
Client Centered
I am not the expert on you and your life. I have a set of tools. I can be a guide, a listener, a teacher, a witness, a third-party neutral person to give advice. Different invidiuals are looking for different things when they come to therapy and that’s okay. I meet my clients where they are at. I seek to empower individuals to express their emotions, needs, and honor their gut and intuition during their healing process.
I also fully acknowledge I can only support and encourage the change or healing that a client is trying to implement in their life. Ultimately, the choice, the ability to integrate knowledge and healing into their own life— comes when a client makes that choice. It also come’s at a client’s own pace. Much of individual or family’s own healing is in their own hands.
Wellness Model
Our mental health and emotional health go hand in hand. Our physical health impacts our bodies ability to cope mentally and emotionally as well.
Our support system, our social wellness, our time spent connecting to nature or something larger than ourselves, impacts our mental and emotional health.
I am a systemic practitioner and I see our bodies as a natural extension of a system craving and seeking balance.
Safety
This is a relationship of trust. I apprecrate you considering me to be a part of your circle.
If we are the right fit for each other, the therapeutic relationship in and of itself becomes a powerful change agent. We can’t get to this place without mutual respect of boundaries and safety.
I honor the bravery it takes to come to therapy. I hold in reverence the deeply personal nature of what individuals and families share with me. I seek to develop a relationship where client’s feel safe and comfortable with me to address any concerns, questions, or fears directly, in session.
Mental Health Coaching is a wonderful healing space when you find the right healing environment that feels safe.
Goals & Needs
A general goal of healing is to integrate the self more fully in one’s life. By healing trauma, relationships, emotional burdens, and increasing emotional regulation, individual’s find peace.
When you come to meet with me you’ll be asked what your goals are. Our treatment planning is a collaborative process. One in which we both are active participants in what you’re seeking to heal or find.
I am gentle and caring. I will at times reflect back to you your goals and desired outcomes for our time together. This is to help orient you to your change process and what you want to achieve.
Reflecting on goals is also how we evaluate whether or not our treatment modatlies are effective and if our process is one that is helping your life. At any point, we can change our trajectory and your goals are in your hands. I will work along side you to achieve your desired outcomes. We will work together as a team.
Support
Healing is not meant to be done alone. It’s why self-help books alone often fail. It’s why common patterns of thinking or maladaptive ways of coping with emotional or mental distress often return. The phrase “It takes a village” is the type of communal support I seek to help all my client’s find in some way.