Psychotherapy Services
Psychotherapy offers a compassionate, safe place to care for all the parts that make you. It is a fit for folks who increasing self-awareness, strengthening self-authority, and seeking to change their lives.
Be emotionally seen in relationship.
The therapeutic relationship can be healing in and of itself. I co-create a unique, nourishing little bubble with each client to rebuild those pathways to attachment and connection with loved ones and themselves.
Decode your past to be more present.
We go backwards to help you move forward. Together, we decode expectations, values, beliefs, responses, ancestral inheritance, and systems that are keeping you stuck. Giving each space and air to allow for grieving, emotional processing, and compassion.
Come home to your innate wisdom.
Inner wisdom, strengths, and intuition awaken, welcoming you back home. They may have once felt distant or unfamiliar, but the numbness and separation will dissolve.
Make the right goals to meet your needs.
We understand the picture of your mental health in all of its complexity by sorting through the clinical, developmental, systemic, and more. Together, we decide what to tackle first and build goals that make a real impact on your present. We follow YOUR road.
Safety and security in parts of a larger mental health structure.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, there are ethics and legal requirements that I follow that create a safe and secure container for clients. HIPPA practices ensure client confidentiality. Licensure requires a certain level of education, hours of experience, and supervision by a Licensed Professional Counselor. Ethical standards help ensure sessions are centered around client wellbeing. The ability to consult with psychiatrists and providing referrals for other mental health services ensures care co-ordination.
The mental health structure also has a horrifying history and deeply problematic present-day practices including, but not limited to, forced hospitalizations, inaccurate diagnosis, and pathologizing human diversity. If you are interested in learning more, Dr. Jennifer Mullan is producing great literature and instruction on decolonizing therapy.
What’s the difference between coaching and psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy and coaching services are inter-related, but do have separate focuses. Often, psychotherapy practitioners can use coaching skills in their psychotherapy practices, but coaches do not have the legal authority to practice some parts of psychotherapy such as diagnosing, assessing, and treating mental health disorders. To add complexity, parts of psychotherapy approaches have roots in traditional healing practices such as Gestalt with Buddhism and curanderismo, creative practices such as body-based Gestalt with dance and acting, and health coaching such as symptom management with sleep management strategies - all of which are skills accessible to coaches.
Still confused? If you are confused by which of these two services is right for you, please do reach out or let’s chat in the free consultation.