Specializations

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    Issues

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    Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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    Art Therapy

Issues

It’s not what’s wrong with you, but what has happened to you.

My clients most often struggle with the impacts of:

  • Relational and childhood trauma

  • Emotional distress including anxiety and depression

  • Life changes and transitions

  • Grief and loss

  • Addictive processes

  • LGBTQIA+ issues

Emotional injuries and pain might look like:

  • Overwhelm

  • Fear and worry

  • Feeling you are too much

  • Feeling not enough, unlovable, undeserving

  • Self-doubt, second-guessing yourself

  • Harsh inner critics

  • People-pleasing, rescuing others

  • Feeling powerless, stuck or trapped

  • Hopelessness, despair

  • Numbing, distracting

  • Withdrawing, avoidance

  • Self-destructive patterns

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Healing is possible. You are not broken and deserve to experience self-compassion, ease, and connectedness to self and others.

Internal Family Systems

IFS is an evidence-based and non-pathologizing approach that is gentle, welcoming of all parts and identities, and can create lasting change.

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IFS honors all parts of us as humans, no matter our experiences, backgrounds, or goals for therapy. It addresses cultural and legacy burdens that span generations, and is uniquely tailored to each individual and their circumstances.

So often, people spend most of their lives feeling like they are too much, not enough, broken, worthless, unlovable—the list goes on. We may have gathered those messages from personal experiences and society. Many times, the ways we compensate for that internal pain includes harsh inner critics, striving to be loved and accepted through people-pleasing or rescuing others, or soothing and numbing behaviors that take us away from painful emotions and beliefs. And yet, lasting change is possible through getting to know these various parts of you, and learning to access your Self—a wise and healing inner essence that cannot be broken or damaged.

Visit the IFS Institute to learn more.

Self possesses qualities that can guide both your internal world and external life, much like an orchestra conductor leads a symphony.

Art Therapy

What is Art Therapy?

via American Art Therapy Association:

Art therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.

Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.

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“Art is a vehicle that allows us to transcend linear time, to travel backward and forward into personal and transpersonal history, into possibilities that weren’t realized and those that might be.”
— Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR

If it makes sense in our work together, art therapy can support externalizing nonverbal and somatic experiences, or for mapping and getting to know parts of your internal system in IFS. No art skill or training is necessary.

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These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

— NAJWA ZEBIAN