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Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy is a humanistic and existential approach based on the belief that people have the innate capacity to face challenges, solve problems, and live meaningful lives. Difficulties often arise when individuals become stuck in habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating that limit present-moment awareness and flexibility. These patterns can shape how a person understands themselves and interacts with others. As a Gestalt therapist, my role is not to provide quick solutions but to work side-by-side with clients to increase awareness of their present experience and how they may participate in maintaining these patterns. Through dialogue, curiosity, and experiential exploration, clients are invited to experiment with new ways of responding to themselves, others, and their circumstances, fostering greater adaptability and choice in everyday life.
Relational Gestalt emphasizes that who we are is formed and revealed through relationships. Patterns that appear in everyday relationships—with family, friends, colleagues, and oneself—also emerge within the therapeutic relationship. By paying attention to what unfolds between therapist and client, therapy becomes a living space for insight, repair, and change.
Gestalt Therapy is particularly helpful for clients who are seeking to foster self-empowerment, self-responsibility, self-compassion, and an authentic, meaningful life.
Read more about Gestalt Therapy here.
Feminist Therapy
Feminist Therapy
Feminist therapy encourages examination of how identity, social expectations, and unequal power in society can impact a person’s mental health. Instead of viewing problems as only personal, feminist therapy recognizes that many struggles are connected to larger social and cultural systems. As a feminist therapist, my role is to help clients understand these influences, feel validated in their experiences, and become more empowered in their lives to support both personal growth and broader social change.
Learn more about Feminist Therapy here.
Harm Reduction Approach
Harm Reduction Approach
This means that I prioritize helping my clients find safer or lower risk approaches to certain behaviors that other providers might encourage abstinence from (e.g. substance use, self-harm).
Harm reduction allows me to support my client's who are not able to, willing to, or wanting to completely abstain from any given behavior. However, should a client's goal be to abstain from something, I will certainly support them in that.
Trauma-Informed Approach
Trauma-Informed Approach
This means that I prioritize creating a therapeutic space where my clients feel safer to be themselves, respecting my client’s autonomy and choice, maintaining transparency with my clients, and recognizing that past experiences in the mental health care system may have been harmful for many clients.
Additional Approaches
Additional Approaches
I have completed training in the following therapeutic approaches listed below and may incorporate elements of these approaches when helpful:
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