Philosophy and Approach to Therapy

There are a few foundational philosophies with which I approach my therapy work: 

1) Everyone has inherent strengths and more strengths to be discovered. I firmly believe that everyone is doing the best they can given the skills, knowledge, and opportunity they have at the time, and that this is ever-evolving. 

2) Acceptance of reality is at the core of our healing. That doesn't mean approving or being okay with the cause of our suffering, but instead accepting reality as it is, since its opposite, resistance to reality, creates more suffering. 

3) No matter our difficulties and challenges, more compassion, directed towards self and others, is essential in alleviating suffering and living more authentically. 

I employ an eclectic approach, using techniques and philosophies from a wide range of therapeutic modalities.  It's also important to me that I always keep my work close to the origins of social work, knowing that clients are impacted by a number of systemic and socialized forms of oppression and bias. Thusly, my work is guided, either in the background or the foreground, by lenses of anti-racism, social justice, anti-stigma, equity, and compassion in action. 

Everyone is welcome in this practice - all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, ages, bodies, abilities, backgrounds, and belief systems.