Learn how therapy with me works.

Therapeutic values

I approach therapy from an anti-oppressive, culturally-humble, justice-oriented, systematically-aware framework. I also understand there’s a lot of complexity and nuance in the world.

Initial session

In your first session—which lasts 75 minutes—we’ll review intake paperwork and begin to get to know one another. You’ll begin to share your needs and goals for our work together, and we’ll discuss how our partnership may help you achieve those. Every subsequent session will be 55 minutes (unless a contract, such as one with an Employee Assistance Program, specifies otherwise), and I recommend we initially meet weekly the first eight weeks before determining what meeting frequency will best foster your goals.

Following sessions

We’ll spend our time together focusing on your emotions and stressors, examining the thoughts that result from those, and understanding what solutions may help create inner contentedness. We’ll work collaboratively to increase your insight and then design goals in alignment with your values.

We’ll consider what’s happening in your life—and, to the extent you want, the broader world. We’ll explore whether what previously happened in your life (or your family’s past) informs your habits, reactions, and interpretations of what’s going on now. Because I advocate understanding your experience in the context of the community, culture, and society in which you live, we’ll also look at how you’ve consciously (or not) integrated or internalized specific histories or messages in your narratives. To help you move forward, we’ll envision the future you want and cultivate strategies that will help you create and move toward that future.