Often difficult life experiences like pain, suffering, confusion, intense emotions, and things just not going right bring us to therapy. Sometimes it's our relationship with ourselves, or with significant others or family members that creates the pain point. It can also be a specific event (breakup, move, feeling left out socially) or a specific felt experience (sad, lonely, angry, scared). AND although it can feel otherwise, there's no shame in receiving support. My hope is that therapy helps you experience greater self-acceptance, compassion, and ease with yourself and your life - it's a worthy and doable endeavor. If you're struggling with relationships, repeating unwanted patterns, stuck, or overwhelmed, therapy can help. Sudden change, issues with control and boundaries, difficult emotions, old wounds, and uncomfortable challenges can all find support here. My passion is working with motivated adults to develop self awareness and compassion and find inner freedom. Your work in therapy can expand your capacity to live your life on your own terms. Our work together provides some dedicated time and space for those things to take root. It takes courage to accept ourselves and to make changes -- and it feels less overwhelming when someone safe encourages you (you deserve that).
Qualifications: | Virginia Commonwealth University |
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Academic Suffixes: | LCSW, SEP |
Expertise: | Anxiety, Body Positivity, Chronic Illness, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Eating Disorders, Grief, Other, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Other, Spirituality, Stress, Substance Use, Trauma and PTSD, Women |