“Dialectics” is the experience of holding two seemingly opposing ideas, feelings, experiences simultaneously to reduce rigidity and distress. DBT is skills-based wherein I teach you mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills in order to better cope with your lived experiences and improve your relationships with others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy presumes that if we change the way we think, we change the way we feel, and we change the way we behave. Sometimes it’s the problem that causes us the most distress, it’s the way we think about it. If we change the way we think about it, we change our relationship.

When appropriate, and if clients express interest, I offer integrated somatic and expressive arts interventions to facilitate processing. Sometimes we do not have the “right words” to convey our experiences and creative, experiential approaches are helpful in bridging this gap.

Additionally, for those who have survived traumatic experiences, I encourage clients to re-establish safety within themselves through somatic work. We can’t think our way out of trauma.

We tell ourselves stories about ourselves and the world all the time, and sometimes we don’t realize the stories we tell ourselves don’t truly reflect our experiences. We even sometimes forget that we’re the main character.

I support clients to externalize, deconstruct, and re-author these stories through clarifying language used and contextualizing the experiences. In this way, honoring a person’s story in context of their personal history, family, family history, current sociopolitical climate, spirituality, and unique intersectionality of identities is important.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative process of weighing the risks & rewards and pros & cons. Through this process, people are able to explore motivators, ambivalence, and barriers for behavior changes in order to make informed decisions.