PSYCHOTHERAPY
My Approach
I endeavor to support clients in nourishing a deeper relationship with the self—psyche. Symptoms can have meaning and be carriers of unconscious psychic responses to our environments, relationships, family history, or internal and external conflicts.
Some of the areas that I have experience with working with clients include:
Depression
Anxiety
Religious Trauma & Deconstructing from religious systems and systems of power
Relationship, family, and attachment issues
Substance Use and co-occurring disorders
complex trauma
Life Transitions
Meaninglessness
work-life issues
Mind-Body Connection
I incorporate family systems, as well as a psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and Jungian lens when working with clients. These theoretical approaches consider the impact of unconscious factors on conscious life and current difficulties. In our work together, in addition to talk therapy, we may utilize approaches such as somatic inquiry, and creative or expressive-art exercises. I encourage clients to record and bring in dreams to our sessions. Through symbolic imagery, dreams can creatively introduce purposeful and potent perspectives on difficult issues. Psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung believed that dreams are a function of psyche and should be considered as a serious means of inner work.
They [dreams] do not deceive, they do not lie, they do not distort or disguise … They are invariably seeking to express something that the ego does not know and does not understand. ~C. G. Jung from Collected Works 17, para. 189.
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