You don’t have to look, act or be a certain way for therapy.
Did you know there are more than 600 kinds of therapy?
I’m sure you’ve been on therapist’s websites and seen the names of these different kinds of therapy, which are mostly acronyms: ACT, DBT, EFT, CBT, SFBT, etc.
If you are like me, you had to open a separate window and Google each of those terms to figure what the acronym even stands for!
But even then, you might not have really understood what that would mean for you.
So, I’ve tried to describe how the different kinds of therapy I lean toward and use with clients might show up in my work with you:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
I like ACT because it’s focused on building psychological flexibility which can be really helpful in our day to day lives. ACT also focuses on helping clients take action toward living a life aligned with their values.
Feminist and Multicultural Therapy
Feminist and multicultural lenses in therapy look at how systems and our identities have shaped our experience of the world, our families, and ourselves. Sometimes this can be a missing layer in therapy and zooming out can be helpful for clients to see larger patterns and systems.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Over time all of us develop parts of ourselves that try to protect and manage us as we interact with the world. Clients can anticipate working with these parts to welcome them, learn how these parts have served us in the past, and how to cultivate a relationship with all of our parts.
Existential
Existential approaches to therapy look at big questions like why are we here, what gives us meaning, and how we grapple with our biggest fears around death, our life purpose, and the meaning of all of this. If you’re in the deep end, I’m right here with you and love to explore how these questions are showing up for you.
Still confused? That’s fine, therapy language isn’t particularly clear or easy to understand.
Here’s the bottom line: I build my working relationship with you by listening closely, slowing down to explore with you, and surfacing the assumptions and patterns that might be shaping your thoughts, beliefs and feelings.
In-person therapy.
I believe we can work more collaboratively and go farther when we are in the same room, sharing the same space. Online appointments are available for sessions due to an emergency or a conflict, but I work primarily in person.