I work from a humanistic perspective of people being inherently good and trying their best while developing protective ways of navigating through life that may not serve them when they aim to thrive and not just survive. 

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I welcome folks as you are, however you identify, orient and present. I am sex/kink positive, body positive, LGBTQQ2SI allied, open to working with people in relationships of varying romantic and intimate structures. I work from an anti-oppressive, feminist and systems perspective that informs how larger and smaller systems, ways of being, work together to shape our experiences.

 

I am trauma informed, use an Attachment Theory lens with EFT -Emotionally Focused Therapy, along with a parts work framework informed by IFS - Internal Family Systems and Structural Dissociation Theory. I am currently being trained in EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing therapy.

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In sessions, we would work to understand the logic of your emotional parts, how your inner system is structured and functions. How do parts of you respond to what, when and why - externally and internally? How have these parts functioned to protect you thus far to survive and how have they limited your ability to thrive when conditions change and you are able to move out of survival mode?  

 

With an understanding of how context in smaller systems like family, partnerships and larger systems like patriarchy inform our experience, along with the impact of Capital 'T' and small 't' traumas, therapy models like parts work, EMDR can help people in their healing and becoming.

 

I am a trained therapist through my social work masters and am registered with the College of Social Workers.