Inside Our Work Together

 

Sessions with me are warm, interactive, and sometimes playful — but 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.

Parts work, informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), offers a way of understanding the different voices and patterns inside you — 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 these as problems to eliminate, we get curious about them. Understanding what your parts are doing — and why — is often where the deepest shifts happen.

Somatic awareness is woven throughout. Stress, trauma, and emotions live in your body, often before you have words for them. We'll pay attention to what your nervous system is communicating and learn to use that information as data rather than noise.

The relational frame of our work is informed by Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), which understands suffering not just as something that happens inside individuals, but between people and within systems. Chronic disconnection produced by heteronormativity, ableism, transphobia, and other structures of marginalization is understood as a central source of pain — and healing is understood to happen in relationship.

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.