MY APPROACH
I recognize the place you are in because I have been there myself & know that healing is possible. I am passionate about helping you realize and fulfill your potential by restoring leadership, balance, trust and harmony in your system. Whatever patterns are presenting in your system, these may be perfectly normal adaptations that your system developed to protect itself from pain and attachment wounds. I believe that our extreme thoughts and emotions are hard enough to have, however when we try to fight them and push them away this often intensifies the problem or makes life unbearable. I hope to offer you another approach that does not involve band aid solutions, distractions, or quick fixes; but rather involves deep personal healing. If you are reading this you likely have already tried to distract from your ‘problem’, find a solution to it, or tried to stop thinking about it. However, things keep triggering the ‘problem’, and perhaps you feel like you are on a roller coaster that never stops. If this is you, then I invite you to learn to relate differently to your inner world.
I hope to discover together how to reconnect you with your innate courage, clarity, and confidence, allowing you to transform. As a Level One IFS Trained Therapist, I use IFS support you in being the driving force in your own healing journey. My clients value my ability to develop meaningful connections with each of them by cultivating an intentional space, that embodies companionship, inner peace, and presence, to inspire healing.
I am passionate about providing individual counselling to adult professionals & other therapists/helpers who would like to transform through exploring their inner world, engaging in healing deep wounds, and foster increased self understanding. Adult professionals are facing particularly difficult situations as they enter a new chapter of life, especially, if they never experienced a secure safe attachment in early life. Helping professionals are faced with additional challenges professionally and it is essential to understand your own practitioner Parts that may show up in your work, so that you can be more present to your clients.
In addition to 1:1 therapy, I also love supporting other to learn and grow as practitioners, which is why I offer consultation as well as teach IFS to other practitioners. I understand that learning a new modality can be challenging and I would be honored to help you to integrate IFS into your practice.
I would love the opportunity to truly understand your individual needs, and would be honored to walk this journey with you.
Location of Self Identity:
Before moving forward in working with me it might be important for you to know a little more about my identity. I believe that my professional experience is only one aspect of me that makes me who I am. There are other personal aspects of who I am that inform the way I practice or limit the way I practice. I see it as important to name personal aspects of myself, as these may be helpful for you to know before choosing to work with me. I am a cisgendered, heterosexual, middle class, Jewish identifying, young parent, who also identifies as female and uses the pronouns she/her. I am able bodied, married, and live with my partner, dog, and son. I am available to talk about my identity and privleged and I invite folks to reach out and connect further if you would like to discuss anything more regarding this.
Outside of the Therapy Room:
I embody the principles of self leadership outside of the therapy room and am constantly checking in with my system (Parts of myself) throughout the day. Outside of being a mom and a therapist (which are my two main roles) I love to read, learn, listen to music, travel, go to concerts, be with my family and spend time outdoors on canoe trips. I welcome the opportunity to learn a bit about you and your interests.