My Approach
Empowerment at the Center of the Therapeutic Process
Therapy with me is collaborative, affirming, and grounded in cultural sensitivity.
Five Principles That Shape the Work
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Safety, First and Always
Building a foundation of trust and emotional safety before processing anything heavy. The work goes deeper when the ground underneath it is steady.
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Your Pace, Your Story
Healing happens at the speed that feels right to you. Nothing rushed, nothing forced, nothing on someone else's timeline.
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Practical, Take-Home Tools
Every session leaves you with something usable: grounding techniques, communication frames, language for what you are feeling. Therapy that travels with you.
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Whole-Person, Whole-Context
Your identity, family system, culture, neurology, and history are not background noise. They are the picture. Treatment that ignores them is not actually treatment.
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Reclaim and Build
The goal is not just to feel less overwhelmed. The goal is to reclaim your narrative and build a life that fits the person you are becoming.
Methods and Modalities
The work draws from several evidence-based clinical modalities, used where they fit rather than as a script:
- CBT-informed practice for structured pattern-change work, especially with anxiety and depression.
- DBT-informed practice for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Trauma-informed and CCTP-aligned practice for trauma and PTSD, with stabilization first.
- Gottman-informed and emotionally-focused work for couples therapy.
- Narrative practice for identity work and reauthoring the story you have been living inside.
- Somatic awareness as a parallel channel to talk-based therapy.
- WPATH-aligned, informed-consent posture for gender affirming care.
- RUBI Parent Training for parenting work with neurodivergent children.