GROW YOUR SELF-LOVE & SUNSET THE SUFFERING OF SHAME
If experiences created your shame spirals then experiences heal them. By engaging in new, reparative experiences of yourself, you can develop an embodied sense of worthiness. I can guide you in this process, bringing deep care and support.
If you’d like to develop self-love, pleasure, and personal potency, I could be the therapist for you. I have a solid, warm, and vibrant presence that can hold a lot of hardship. Given my own path towards wholeness, I tend to be very curious, which supports clients from all kinds of backgrounds. I am committed to providing a trauma-informed, sex-positive, body-accepting, LGBTQ+ celebrating, and equity-oriented practice.
I have gotten to know the essence of a wide range of behaviors and we are always getting something from what we do otherwise we wouldn’t do it!
Granted, what we are getting may no longer be satisfying and might even be harmful, but at some point, our behaviors had a purpose for our wellbeing.
I have found that taking this non-pathologizing approach to somatic and sex therapy helps clients build self-compassion.
Life has shaped all of us in various forms of shame. I strive to hold myself and clients with the utmost kindness and respect.
Sometimes saying the “hard thing” is the path of compassion. Very few spaces give us the opportunity to face the truth and then repair its wounds. I aim to provide that space.
Compassion is often what we need the most to have better relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.
Often what we have disowned, made secret, or abandoned ends up controlling us. Cultivating curiosity can be a pathway towards self-compassion and potent living.
I bring my curiosity to my clients’ lives, making an effort to not make assumptions and ask helpful questions for us to explore together.
Shame and trauma are often rooted in the systematic oppression that pervades our social fabric. I bring cultural humility and social justice values to my practice.
I pay careful attention to how my positionality impacts my work and my day-to-day life.
I support clients as they examine their own positionalities within a larger historic and psychosocial context.
Shame seems to rob us of our vitality and aliveness. One of my therapeutic goals is to help clients grow or regain their vitality for potent living.
In building a therapeutic alliance, I attend to the vitality of our relationship, which comes first and foremost.
