Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
M.A. Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy
Supervisor: Silvana Espinoza Lau, LMFT and Torey Andrus, LMFT
I am an anti-oppressive therapist and specialize in helping individuals and couples affected by complex trauma's living legacy.
Client Status
97210
Rate: $120-$165
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2020
Languages: English
I specialize in the treatment of complex trauma. I am currently only taking new couples and families. My hours are 1pm-7pm Mon-Fri. I help people foster a more secure bond, regulate, get connected to their emotions and their bodies, resolve past wounds, strike a balance between connectedness and personal identity, understand patterns, heal intergenerational wounds, and live a life more aligned with selfhood, agency, and personal values.
Specialties
I incorporate attachment work into every session and it is a grounding theory of my style and approach to providing therapy. Therapy is most effective when a therapeutic relationship forms between the therapist and the client. Attachment theory guides me in how I build that relationship with my clients.
EFT is used with families, couples and individuals. Sometimes when we're stressed, tired, spread too thin, or triggered we can struggle to connect emotionally with our partners or ourselves. I use both S. Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy and L. Greenberg's Emotion Focused Therapy to help make sense of negative cycles of interaction, connect to underlying emotion, balance identity with relationship, and become skillful in both self regulation and co-regulation.
I'm passionate about helping couples navigate the complexity of relationships. I help couples learn to communicate skillfully (especially about emotional needs), negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors that are more aligned with personal values.
ACT is an important part of my toolkit as a therapist because it's all about learning how to make room for emotions mindfully and with deep compassion while rooting into your personal values.
Specialties
I specialize in helping people understand the ways trauma, especially complex trauma and intergenerational trauma, impacts their lives, their relationships, and their emotional and behavioral symptoms or experiences. Using somatic therapy, mindfulness, neuroscience, and psychoeducation, I facilitate an integration of traumatic life experiences so you can regain safety, personal power, agency, healthy connection, and self trust.
I specialize in couple and relationship therapy for people living with trauma. Relationships can wound but they can also be tremendous healing agents. I will help you learn how to relate to your own or your partner’s trauma and how it shows up in the relationship in new ways that foster connection, intimacy, security, and mastery. We will work together to communicate skillfully, negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors together.
I help people explore the nature of their depression and gain insight on a deeper level using psychodynamic therapy, humanism, ACT, and attachment theory.
I am passionate about offering women a safe space in therapy where a sense of solidarity and communion and can be felt. I often support women who have been victims of domestic and sexual violence in the past toward post traumatic growth.
Improving self esteem and recovering from perfectionism tend to be themes for the clients I work with.
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