Telehealth & COVID-19 Notice

The pandemic has brought immense uncertainty as life has been dramatically shifted for most due to the global pandemic. My goal as a therapist is to continue to provide the best therapy possible to you.

Currently, I am offering therapy services by Telehealth sessions only (secure phone or video) until further notice. This I believe, will allow us to continue our work together while also contributing to minimizing exposure and healing ourselves and our communities. I also use Teletherapy as an ongoing tool to reduce barriers of mobility and accessibility for clients.

What is Telehealth? Also known as Online Counseling, Online Therapy, Telehealth Therapy, and E Therapy, Telehealth is the practice of providing therapy sessions either over the phone or via live video chat. Although Telehealth and online therapy is not a new concept, recent global health issues have created a more urgent need for effective therapy via remote means. Once you have access to a phone or a computer with the internet and a camera, you can have a live therapy session.

How does Telehealth Therapy work? On the day of your appointment, you will receive a unique video link. You simply click on the link at your appointment time and it takes you to a virtual waiting room that then connects us. If you wish to talk via phone instead, I will call you at the appointed time using a secure line.

How secure are Telehealth therapy services? I offer Telehealth therapy services via a secure HIPPA compliant software technology that ensures the connection will not be ‘hacked into.’ It’s a protected virtual space that includes bank-level data encryption, secure messaging, and privacy protection.

What is the best location for a Telehealth session? When planning your online therapy session, please find a location that will be private and uninterrupted for the duration of your call. Choose a place where you feel comfortable talking freely without being overheard. Sometimes we have to be creative! Telehealth therapy can even take place in bedroom closets, cars, and in backyards. Some clients have chosen to do phone sessions and use that time to ‘walk and talk.’ The important part is you feel comfortable and safe.

Is Telehealth therapy as good as in-person therapy? There is something special about being in a room together for therapy, however Telehealth is providing opportunity for me to provide my specialty to clients who need more options for accessibility for a variety of reasons. It’s also meant that therapy work has not stopped with the current pandemic. Clients have expressed surprise at how quickly they have adjusted to Telehealth, especially some who were very skeptical in the beginning. Telehealth still allows for deep healing work.

You are the author and expert of your own life experience.

As a deeply relational human, my goal as a therapist is to create a safe, non-judgmental, and non-pathologizing environment to support you in telling your story and working through the process of positive change.  I strive to engage collaboratively, and compassionately with all of my clients throughout the therapeutic journey. My work is grounded in practices that stem from humanistic and person-centered philosophies, yet I find great value in taking an integrative approach and utilizing a diverse set of therapeutic frameworks in order to meet each client's needs in a shared effort so that you may grow psychologically and emotionally.  I work from a body and weight inclusive paradigm, as I believe that being compassionate towards the self, and living compassionately in your body is a critical foundation for empowerment.

My role is to support you in creating your own comprehensive understanding of self, while exploring personal truths, identifying personal strengths, and assisting with understanding as to how sociopolitical and cultural factors impact the shaping of our lives, self-concept, values, and worldview. 

Services I Provide:

Individual Therapy: Wherever you are in life’s ever-changing journey, it’s likely you are finding a need to work through difficulties and challenges. We will work together in a joint process to identify goals and find ways to inspire change to improve your quality of life. Through this process, we will work to overcome the obstacles that are in the way of your ideal wellness, and create more positive feelings that will assist you in moving forward through difficult situations by increasing your own self-awareness, making healthier decisions and achieving your goals.

Relational/Couples Therapy: Whatever the stage of your relationship, I will work with you and your partner(s) in identifying what interactions and communication patterns may be negatively impacting the friendship, intimacy, and connection within your relationship, and work through any conflict you may be experiencing. We will work together to navigate healing, make repair, enhance connection and explore how to fulfill needs, build trust, and create stronger bonds.

At this time I do not offer therapy services to clients under the age of 21.

Focused areas of concern that I treat:

I am passionate about empowering women to love themselves and make peace with mind, body, and food.

• Body Image: I especially enjoy working with clients in cultivating body appreciation, and finding new ways to care for self on a deeper and more intimate level. We live in a society that floods us with negative messages as to how our bodies are wrong. I work with clients to decrease shame and guilt around the body, and to find safety and acceptance in taking up the personal space you have the right to comfortably occupy.

• Disordered Eating/Food Relationships: I utilize the principles of Intuitive Eating and work from a Health at Every Size (HAES®) approach to provide you with support in finding peace with your body and with food. I strive to encourage you to trust your body and listen to hunger and fullness cues and assist you in rediscovering joy and satisfaction through celebrating body diversity, and rejecting diet culture, sizeism, and the "thin ideal."

• Self-Esteem/Self-Confidence: Your overall sense of self-worth and value is vital to a positive life experience. Low self-esteem can negatively affect your life and manifest itself in many different ways. My goal is to assist you in feeling less critical of yourself by helping you to develop tools that increase your feelings of self-esteem and inner confidence.

• Personal Growth: I work with clients to increase awareness through processing life experiences that gives and allows space to finding connection between the mental, emotional, and physical self to reveal your own personal growth potential, and put it into practice.

• Adjustments/Life Transitions: Life is full of both expected and unexpected transitions, and change can be challenging, exciting, puzzling, and/or scary. My goal is to assist you in exploring situations that are causing discomfort and process the experience(s) to find comfort, relief, and/or contentment in moving forward.

• Grief/Loss: Grief and loss can come in many forms, due to many situations, both expected and unexpected. I work to help educate my clients around the different stages of grief and loss, and assist you in identifying your own unique experiences, where you are at with coping, processing each emotion/feeling that is encountered, and find healing.

• Codependency/Boundaries:  Many people find that they often sacrifice their own personal needs to try and meet the needs of others. This can often be to the point of discomfort that can lead to other mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety. I assist client with learning how to set appropriate boundaries in order to alleviate the feeling of being responsible for others’ happiness. Learning to say ‘no’, and putting your own needs first is a critical life skill that leads to lasting mental health and wellness.

• Relationship Distress: Navigating the ebbs and flows of a relationship can be really difficult. Relationship distress has powerful effects on the partners, often leading to great sadness, worry, a high level of tension, anxiety, and depression. I work with clients in relationships on learning to have more positive and transparent communication through repairing and reconnection.

• Highly Sensitive Personality/Empaths: I work with clients to identify where they may fall on the empathetic spectrum, and how to recognize the power of their unique traits. Once identified, we will work to distinguish your sense of self from those around you, and how to protect and care for yourself and abilities.

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