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Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy aims to help clients connect with their authentic selves by increasing awareness of their present-moment thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relational patterns. Rather than offering quick, surface-level fixes, the Gestalt therapeutic process encourages curiosity, self-exploration, and experiential learning to help clients identify how they move through the world and what might be limiting their choice and connection to themselves and others. Through this collaborative process, clients develop deeper insight into themselves, cultivate more flexibility in how they engage with others and their environment, and move through life with increased intentionality and alignment with who they truly are.
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.
I have completed three years of postgraduate training at the Gestalt Institute of Pittsburgh, earning certificates in fundamental and advanced Gestalt theory and methodology.
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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