Therapy
While we can increasingly understand human suffering through science, healing human pain and fostering human joy is truly an art. I specialize in helping adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression and trauma resolution. I enjoy working with clients from various cultural backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. I continue to expand my competency as a clinician through continued education and by doing my own work around what it means to be a cisgender white female with a great deal of privilege. The wisdom and resilience that my clients share with me never cease to inspire me to use my privilege to advocate for change, in addition to sitting with those who’s suffering is a direct result of our current social systems.
Because healing and growth are inherently relational, I find that the best approach to working with clients from different cultures and backgrounds is to name and honor where I can empathize versus where I can only do my best to understand what they’re experiencing. As I sit with clients who’ve experienced racism, sexism, classism and homophobia, I consistently find that oppression and marginalization are always deeper and more hidden than we realize. Often, this requires consistently externalizing what we have internalized in our relationship to ourselves, while honoring that the world we live in remains dangerous to and oppressive toward many. The courage and resiliency I witness in my clients is truly humbling and it reminds me that working to change the system is an inherent part of my role as a therapist with privilege.
Mental health coaching and presentations
When I am not seeing clients, I enjoy returning to my tech roots to provide mental health presentations and workshops that empower individuals, teams and companies to be as healthy, innovative and effective as they can be. I also enjoy bringing experts across all aspects of holistic therapy together to talk about how Psychedelic Assisted Therapy can help to heal all aspects of human health, e.g. our mind, body, spirit, community and environment (TM). In my public speaking and workshops, I combine psychoeducation with practical interventions that empower people to make real changes in their lives, outside of the therapeutic setting. From trauma processing, to building a healthy relationship, to being the best parent, partner or boss possible, I find that starting with knowledge can be normalizing and validating, giving participants the courage to experiment with some of the healing techniques that have helped me (and my clients) to grow and thrive.