My approach to working with clients is supportive, collaborative, and integrative. Being supportive means that I approach you with warmth, empathy, compassion, and a non-judgmental curiosity about everything you bring into session. As a collaborative therapist, it is also important to me that we bring together my clinical expertise with your lived experience and existing strengths to work through your issues side-by-side. Clinically, I am a integrative therapist who first considers what you need, and then draws from multiple evidence-based therapeutic approaches (e.g. psychodynamic, humanistic, interpersonal, relational cultural, existential, and CBT) to create an individualized therapy that is effective for you. In other words, I believe in trying different approaches until we find the right combination that works for you.
As a therapist, I am interested in you as a person – your experiences, identities, cultures, and relationships – and working alongside you to help you make progress toward the goals you set. It’s important to me that you feel deeply heard, understood, and respected as we work together to develop new understandings and approaches to your life and work.