About Counseling
My practice is existential and is very gentle and insight-oriented. I love to use expressive art techniques and frequently encourage the use of self-compassion, mindfulness, and EFT (tapping). As needed, I provide tools from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. My goal is for you to feel validated and hopeful in our time together.
I facilitate exploration by providing a compassionate, empathetic space for you to feel safe. I offer a non-judgmental, fresh perspective, always working to create a collaborative space with you. The tools I offer allow you to access your potential for change through art, movement, and other whole-person based offerings.
I use evidence-based techniques, effective for people suffering from anxiety, depression, as well as for people seeking improved wellness.
Sand tray is a creative and symbolic therapeutic technique that allows the participant to explore aspects of the self in a safe and abstracted way. Through the use of this expressive technique, many people report the ability to access aspects of their consciousness that they otherwise have difficulty connecting with. The sand and use of miniatures provides a sensory element to the therapeutic experience that deepens integration and can result in an increased sense of wholeness. Because we are so left-brain-focused in our culture, use of creative and expressive techniques allows the right hemisphere to engage and promotes wellness through enhanced integration, yielding improved regulation, self-awareness, and well being.
Expressive art techniques provide a therapeutic space for creativity. Use of art in therapy can have dramatic effects. People often report surprise for how deep they are able to go when using art, largely because of how the psyche is able to go where it needs to during exploration of their creation.