What is therapy like? What does a typical session with you look like?

We will collaborate together to come up with goals central to your healing and personal growth. During our 60 minute telehealth sessions we will use these goals as our guide to healing past traumas as well as working on concrete sustainable changes to make in the present to help relieve any acute symptoms. I will act as a support, using gentle challenges to move you through your challenging life circumstances and into a space of feeling happy and confident. 

Together, we will develop achievable goals based on your needs and strengths. I use a collaborative approach, combining strategies from several modalities, to target your most impacting problems. We will meet virtually, so therapy will always be in a location and time convenient for you

Rather than have an agenda for sessions beforehand, I see where you're at and what you're wanting to express and focus on.

My sessions are all telehealth and are therefore in the comfort of your own home.

I start off most sessions with what would you like to talk or reflect about. For me it is a simple acknowledgement to the fact that I can’t know what someone is feeling until they take the risk of telling me. If I have an agenda for the session, I add that I would like to talk about X. If you don’t feel like talking about what I want to talk about you have the right to table my agenda for the session. I might bring it up in the next session what you think might happen between us if you talked about my agenda if you avoid the topic.

I build my sessions around what my clients need. For some people that's playing a game or doing an art activity while we talk. For others, it's using a more structured approach. Sometimes a mix of both. I make sure that since I'm asking people to be honest and transparent with me that I do the same for them. So be prepared for a bit of randomness in the form of weird examples and pop culture references. :)

A client can expect a session to be held in a comfortable, welcoming environment, free from judgement and outside distractions. I strive for a balance of structure in session without forcing the client to adhere to a rigid schedule of activities. Clients are greeted warmly and on time at all sessions.

As a strength-based clinician, I have had the opportunity and privilege to assist people in the process of bringing stability and healing to their lives, by helping them to find and recognize their own inner strengths and applying them to their daily lives. Patients are able to take home tools in assisting them in coping with current/past stressors.