EVIDENCED-BASED THERAPY, TAILORED TO YOU
My Approach
Effective therapy isn't about applying the same set of techniques to every person. I am ERP specialist, who integrates interventions from CBT, DBT, ACT, IPT, and attachment based therapy all within a multicultural and feminist context. This means that therapy with me includes exploring your social relationships and the impact of the systems that we live in on your current concerns. I recognize that systemic inequalities contribute to an individual’s concerns and incorporate this frame into my treatment. I believe that trust must be earned within the therapy space, and I work to build an open, warm, and supportive environment that promotes growth, autonomy, and exploration.
My work is active and collaborative. I'll help you understand why we're using a particular approach, and we'll make decisions about treatment together.
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ERP helps you change the cycle between fear and the behaviors you use to feel safe, certain, or in control. Together, we'll identify triggers, compulsions, avoidance, reassurance seeking, and other patterns that provide short-term relief but keep fear going over time.
We'll collaboratively develop opportunities to approach feared thoughts, feelings, sensations, foods, or situations while practicing new ways of responding.
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ACT helps you develop a different relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions rather than spending your life trying to eliminate or control them. We'll work on increasing psychological flexibility i.e. making room for difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them control what you do. It means adapting to what’s happening and choosing actions based on what matters to you even when discomfort or uncertainty come along for the ride.
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CBT helps us understand connections among your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and environment. We'll identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck and experiment with different ways of responding.
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DBT can help you understand and navigate intense emotions, tolerate distress, communicate effectively, and respond more intentionally rather than automatically.
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Relationships and life experiences can influence how we understand ourselves and cope with distress. Interpersonal approaches help us explore relationship patterns, communication, connection, roles, and how your relationships may interact with the concerns bringing you to therapy.
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Our early and ongoing relationships can shape how we understand ourselves, other people, safety, and connection. When relevant, we'll explore these patterns with curiosity and consider how they may be influencing your present relationships and experiences.
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You Don’t Have to Know Which Type of Therapy You Need
ERP, ACT, CBT, DBT? These might sound like a lot of therapy acronyms, and you don’t need to know which one is “right” for you before getting started. That’s part of what we’ll figure out together.
We’ll start with what’s actually important: what’s been difficult, what you’d like to change, and where you feel stuck. From there, I’ll incorporate different evidenced-based approaches to create treatment that fits you rather than expecting you to fit the therapy.