Clinical Practice Areas
I work from a non-hierarchizing lens and am interested in who you are. Practice areas represent domains of research and clinical experience, not philosophical alignment to any of the (multiple) extant taxonomies for making sense of suffering or ways of being in the world.
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Uncontrolled Anxiety
Anxiety is a basic component of human experience, but sometimes our nervous systems can go off on journeys of extreme anxiety that we don't will and don't need, even when we're generally safe. If you experience anxiety as a flood or a cyclone that takes you away quickly from a sense of being anchored to the present moment and in safe surroundings, you may have tried many ways to cope, including mindfulness, reframing, and sensory soothing techniques, only to find the anxiety persists and grows. Take heart; you are not defective. In the safety of the psychotherapeutic relationship, through dialogue and deep listening, we can find new ways to listen and honor to your anxiety, locating pathways forward that dignify and resolve rather than repress or deny.
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Trauma Resolution
Our sensory systems, the languages and relationships we're born into, our emotions, and our sense of self interrelate. When we experience overwhelming trauma, multiple dimensions of psychic and somatosensory function are disrupted, and healing becomes a journey of nurture/revolt, where saying no to the ongoing effects of violence is coupled with saying yes to empathy. receiving support, and making time to bring the places most confused, horrified, or disjointed within to speech, recognition, affirmation, and safety.
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Neurodivergent Affirming Care
Neurodiversity refers to variations in styles of thinking, knowing, and being in the world. When variable expressions within domains of sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions are normed against 'ideals, ' false perceptions of lack or deficit can ensue. Rather than viewing differences through a deficit-focused lens, neurodivergent-affirming care emphasizes affirms the depth, breadth and value of all minds.
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Complex Dissociation & DID
If you're struggling with a complex dissociative disorder, odds are you've experienced stress around how dissociative disorders have been denied, exoticized, stigmatized, and misunderstood in popular culture and clinical practice alike. Here, you'll find compassionate listening, acceptance, a non-stigmatizing container to explore, and clinical experience working with the aftermath of severe trauma as well as with complex dissociation in all of its manifestations.
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