The good life is a process, not a state of being.

Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) is an approach to support you with improving your thoughts and emotions.

 Rather than focusing on changing your thought processes or attempting to rid you of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, ACT works to increase cognitive flexibility in order to accept that there will, at times, be discomfort. 

With tools that center defusion to increase the space between you and your uncomfortable thoughts, ACT supports us with exploring actions that more closely align with our core values in order to better navigate discomfort and the challenges of our lives. 

Polyvagal theory helps us understand the connection between body, brain and autonomic nervous system. 

It provides a lens for us to understand what our nervous system is doing when it feels dysregulated, and it provides tools and interventions to more easily recenter our systems and maintain regulation. 

While often used as a foundation for trauma work, polyvagal theory has also proved to successfully support those living with anxiety, depression, and other experiences of dysregulation. 

Existential therapy focuses on the big, sometimes scary, seemingly unanswerable questions of human existence. Bringing power to the unknowable, existential frameworks support clients with asking and exploring questions such the meaning of life, when are where we actually have free will,  and curiosities about death and dying. 

Existential therapy supports clients going to the scary places and asking the hard questions that impact daily life but that most of us often avoid. 

Using existentialism in therapy supports clients with finding answers that feel right to them, even if there is no "right" answer. It supports clients with gaining autonomy, enacting their free will, and finding meaning... even in spaces that feel meaningless.

Intersectional feminism recognizes that various social identities, including but not limited to race, class, sexuality, and ability, intersect to inform unique experiences of oppression and privilege.

I center intersectional feminism in therapy with clients to support the exploration of lived experiences and to support clients with the identification of how systems of power and oppression impact experiences of mental health.

I have found that with the acknowledgement intersectionality, clients are more empowered to seek control of elements contributing to emotional distress even within systems they did not actively decide to be part of.