Inside Our Work Together

 

Sessions with me are warm, interactive, sometimes playful — grounded in a clear clinical framework. 

 

I practice Art Psychotherapy as a primary modality, meaning image-making and the creative process are central to how we access and work with what you're carrying. Visual art can reach pre-verbal, body-held, and emotionally charged material that talk therapy alone often can't. No artistic skill required. Just willingness to engage the process.

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My work is rooted in Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), which understands pain and suffering not as something that originates inside you, but as something shaped by the systems around us and the messages we've spent a lifetime absorbing. So much of what people carry is generated by heteronormativity, ableism, racism, transphobia, and other forms of structural marginalization. Something shifts when the question moves from "what's wrong with me?" to "what's wrong with these systems?" — that's when real healing can begin. Those questions can't be answered alone. They open up through reconnection, community, and allowing relationships to matter again, even when that feels scary.

IFS-Informed Parts Work offers a way of understanding the different parts and inner voices that make up your experience — the part that wants to heal, the part that's been protecting you for years, the part that shuts down when things get hard. Rather than treating parts as problems to eliminate, we get curious about them and create space for all parts to be heard, understood, and cared for. Learning what your parts are doing — and why — is often where the most meaningful change can happen.

Stress, trauma, and emotions live in the body — often before we have words for them. Somatic Awareness is woven throughout treatment to help you learn to pay attention to what your nervous system is communicating and use that information as important data rather than noise. This includes a combination of mindfulness and visualization techniques to tune into the body's language of emotions with greater clarity and ease.

In practice, a session might include art-making, body-based exercises, exploring relationship dynamics as they show up in real time, or simply talking through what's present.

 

There's no right way to do this. We'll find what fits.