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Client-Centered

Client-centered therapy, otherwise known as person-centered therapy, is focused on the clinician providing the client with unconditional positive regard and allows room for the client to lead the way in the therapeutic treatment.

As a client-centered therapist, I respect and value your goals in treatment and I utilize the therapeutic space as a container for your processing while I maintain a warm presence for you to feel most comfortable as we work together. 

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Trauma-Informed

Trauma-informed therapy aims to hold the entirety of the client's lived experiences in mind when approaching therapeutic treatment. Instead of asking, what is wrong with you? Trauma-informed therapy seeks to understand, how have you been impacted by the experiences in your life, what is it that you need in order to feel more safe, and what do you imagine healing, or post-traumatic growth, looks like for you?

Working with a trauma-informed lens supports my clients by allowing the wholeness of the individual and the experiences they have lived through to be witnessed as we work together. Holding a trauma-informed lens allows me to support my clients in building internal and bodily safety, by understanding the bigger picture surrounding their present circumstances, to begin to face and move beyond the more distressing or challenging aspects of their unique experiences. 

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Integrative 

Integrative therapy allows me the room to honor the diverse and unique needs of my clients where a one-size-fits-all therapeutic model may not.

Just as unique each individual is from another, I do not believe a single approach to therapy would be beneficial to the varied life experiences of individuals I tend to work with. Working with an integrative lens allows me to move with my clients and support in a way unique to each individual while I show up in the room as my most authentic self with my knowledge of psychology. 

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Somatic

Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that incorporates a mind-body connection. With a greater understanding of the impact trauma has on the body, somatic therapy modalities aim to support clients healing processes by helping clients grow curiosity, tolerance and awareness around how their body experiences their emotions as well as past and present experiences in order to help an individual heal. 

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As I set out to become a therapist, I knew I would like to incorporate a mind/body connection into the way I practiced and supported clients, as movement and talk-therapy have been integral to my own healing journey.

I incorporate somatic work with my clients with a gentle, client-led and trauma-informed approach. Having lived experiences of how challenging it can be to sit with the sensations that come along with emotions and healing from past experiences, I value following my clients lead on what feels right for their body in building a tolerance for the physical sensations that can arise when tuning into the body and beginning to heal from past experiences and how they have been held within the body. 

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness is known to benefit humans in a variety of ways, including; reducing stress and anxiety, improving emotional regulation, increasing self-awareness, enhancing cognitive function and reducing general symptoms of depression and anxiety. 

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I incorporate mindfulness into my practice by getting curious with my client's about their present experiences within the therapeutic process. Although I may guide my clients in grounding meditations at times, I tend to use mindfulness as a way of being as I work in the moment with my clients. Holding that the therapeutic environment is a practice space for the real-world, I believe incorporating the present moment into therapy sessions can be a powerful tool for supporting clients in building tolerance for the present moment and the physical, as well as mental experiences that can come along with any moment beyond the walls or virtual rooms of therapy. 

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Attachment

Attachment based therapy works with an individual's experiences in close relationships and aims to support clients in building a more secure attachment system. Attachment therapy explores how early relationships many times, but not limited to, the parent and child attachment landscape create insecurity or security within relationships. 

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Utilizing an attachment based perspective in my work, I aim to provide a warm, non-judgmental and curious space for my clients to begin to grow more comfortable being vulnerable and feeling secure within relationships. I support my clients in building an awareness around the impacts their childhood has on their sense of self and a unique internal defense system that comes along with their lived experiences. I believe by looking within and at our experiences within close relationships we may be able to grow more compassion and empathy for ourselves, as well as more compassion and empathy for others and their uniquely lived experiences, too.