Specialties
High Performing Individuals
Devoting your life to a highly demanding career in arts, music, academics, or sports can be incredibly fulfilling while also being tremendously challenging. The stress of constantly being expected to perform at your best can leave you burn-out and overwhelmed. You may find yourself so consumed by your career that it is hard to know who you are, and what life would look like, without it. Therapy can help you to navigate these stressors more effectively and to develop your identity, so you can build a sense of your life and your self that is m than just your career.
Major Life Transitions
Starting college, graduation, marriage, break-ups, new jobs, and moves, and much much more- major life transitions can be opportunities for joy, but also times of incredible stress. You may have trouble adjusting to the change or find yourself wondering whether you’ve made the right decision. Big changes in our life often ask us to understand ourselves and the people closest to us in new ways. In therapy you can develop greater understanding of your responses to change and develop the skills to navigate transitions in the ways you want to.
Challenging Family Dynamics
Every family functions differently, and sometimes the people we are closest to are also the people with whom we have the most conflict. Some families may feel so tight-knit that you aren’t able to live your own life and others may feel so distant that you don’t know how to feel close to others. Whether you are navigating setting boundaries, processing no-contact, or learning to change your role in your family patterns, therapy can help you to recognize patterns in your family and understand how those dynamics may impact you now.
Intimacy & Relationships
Relationships and intimacy can be some of the most special parts of our life, but also feel like the most vulnerable. Difficulties connecting, loss of desire, troubles with communication, history of trauma, all can impact our ability to connect and feel fulfilled in our closet relationships. You may have trouble creating the relationships you truly want or you may struggle to communicate your desires for intimacy with others. Therapy can help you to better understand how you see yourself and others in relationships, so you can feel more comfortable asking for the partnership and intimacy that you want.
Trauma & Post-Traumatic Growth
Trauma can be a scary word. It can bring up strong emotions around what it means to have experienced something painful and even stronger fears that harmful experiences may negatively impact us forever. Trauma focused therapy provides a non-judgmental space where you can process these experiences, reflect on the way trauma may influence how you see yourself and the world, and pivotally, help you to build an narrative of yourself beyond these experiences. Post-traumatic growth is a concept that describes the ways in which individuals can come to see the strengths in themselves and their relationships following a traumatic event. It is a process by which trauma becomes something that happened to us, but not something that defines us.