Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
M.A. Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy
Supervisor: Silvana Espinoza Lau, LMFT and Alana Ogilvie, LMFT
I believe that healing in therapy is about coming back home to your self. I specialize in the treatment of complex trauma.
Client Status
541-919-4494
97210
Rate: $115-$135
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2020
Languages: English
My clients are individuals and couples who seek a safe, non-judgemental space to better understand their patterns of interaction in their relationships with others and with themselves. Couples who work with me often seek to foster a more secure bond, increase intimacy, improve communication, and make mindful shifts in the ways they respond and react to one another. Individuals who work with me seek to cultivate a more present, grounded, loving, and compassionate relationship with their selves.
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 therapuetic relationship forms between the therapist and the client. Attachment theory guides me in how I help build that relationship with my clients. In couples therapy, I will help you understand how your attachment style and patterns interacts with your partner's attachment style and patterns.
Sometimes when we're stressed, tired, spread too thin, or triggered we can struggle to connect emotionally with our partners. I use Emotionally Focused Therapy to help couples reconnect, both with themselves and with each other.
I'm passionate about helping couples navigate the complexity of relationships. I draw from two models of couple and relationship therapy based in attachment theory called Intimacy From the Inside Out and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I use these models to 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 your personal integrity.
Specialties
I specialize in helping people understand the ways trauma, especially complex trauma, impacts their lives, their relationships, and their emotional and behavioral symptoms or experiences. Using somatic therapy, mindfulness, nueroscience, and psychoeducation, I facilitate an integration of traumatic life experiences so you can regain safety, personal power, agency, 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 and attachment theory.
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