Clinical Approaches

 

Blending various techniques that incorporate a healthy life, I will support you in living authentically. In my work, I like to look at the emotional, spiritual, physical and overall health of a person in order to create a harmony of these systems. Below are a few speciality areas that encompass this framework and create a space of acceptance and self discovery to living openly as your authentic self. 

Theoretical Frameworks

  • ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) -blends acceptance, mindfulness and behavior changes together

  • DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)-blends mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness together

  • RO-DBT (Radically Open DBT)-challenges rigidity and over controlled thoughts and behaviors, increase more flexibility and openness to thoughts and beliefs about self and others

  • Polyvagal Theory -Looks at the nervous system and how to engage in regulation with flight/fright/freeze

  • ERP (Exposure Response Prevention)-explore systematic paths towards gentle exposure and helping you find ways to regulate your thoughts/mind/body/senses in order to calmly navigate something that has created intense distress in your life

  • Feminist & Queer Theory-Focuses on gender/sexuality and navigating bias, oppression, discrimination in your daily life

  • Decolonization lens-Address’s how race impacts social, political, healthcare systems

  • HAES (Healthy at Every Size) - honoring individual health and the many layers related to how we are in relationship with our bodies

  • Relational/Gestalt/Humanist-blending our conversations to increase awareness of authentic self and curiosity in actualizing empowerment in present life

  • Psychodynamic frames- using a blend of Erikson’s lens of personality developing through each stage of life development, noticing how environment, culture etc influence our psyche and Bowlby’s Attachment theory as the cruxt of secure healthy attachments to self and others

Intersectional blend of eclectic specialty areas

  • LGBTQIA (identity, sexuality, relationships, etc)

  • Poly/Ethical Non Monogamy

  • Sex work

  • Kink (BDSM etc)

  • Trauma (CPTSD etc)

  • Anxiety/OCD/Pure O/Harm OCD/Relationship OCD etc

  • Neurodiversity

  • Grief/loss (humans, pets, friendships, jobs etc)

  • Chronic illness/disability related topics (POTS, EDS, MCAST, Cancer, Long Covid, etc any other long term health issue)

  • Eating disorders

  • Mood (depression, bipolar etc)

  • Interpersonal conflict/self esteem

  • Multicultural identity (within individuals and family’s)

  • Family relationships

  • Romantic relationships

  • Personality Disorders (OCD, Avoidant, Dependent, Borderline, Histrionic, Antisocial)

  • DID (dissociate identity disorder)

  • Reproductive Health and fertility (conception/family planning/IUI/IVF)

  • Pregnancy related topics and complications (high risk pregnancy/pregnancy loss etc)

  • Post Partum for all folx

  • NICU journey’s and preemie life

  • Adoption/Foster Care