Modalities
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ACT helps people stop feeling so controlled by anxious thoughts, overthinking, and self-criticism. Instead of getting stuck fighting their emotions or believing every thought their mind throws at them, clients learn how to slow down and respond to themselves with more awareness, intention, and self-compassion, thereby reducing the suffering caused by anxiety. The goal isn’t to “get rid” of anxiety, but to help it take up less space so people can feel more grounded, connected, and aligned with the life they want to live.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals helps people better understand what they’re feeling, why they feel that way, and how to respond to their emotions with more awareness and self-compassion. It’s especially helpful in working with complex trauma and the way early relationship experiences can shape how we connect with ourselves and others. EFT is based on the idea that these early patterns can live on in the present, impacting things like anxiety, emotional disconnection, people-pleasing, or struggling to speak up for your needs.
Over time, EFT can help you make sense of these deeper patterns so you can begin to feel more secure in yourself and in your relationships.
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Attachment-based therapy helps people explore how early relationships and life experiences may still be shaping the way they feel, see themselves, and connect with others today. A really important part of this work is the relationship between you and your therapist, which offers a steady, supportive space where you can start to notice patterns as they happen and experience what it feels like to be in a relationship that is safe, attuned, and emotionally present.
Over time, this kind of relationship becomes part of the healing itself. People begin to build more secure, supportive connections in their lives, while also gently working through old relational wounds and developing a deeper sense of trust in themselves and others.
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Mindfulness helps people gently notice what’s happening in the present moment, thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, without judging it or getting overwhelmed by it. It also helps you step back from unhelpful thoughts and see them as passing mental events, not facts you have to believe. This creates more space for nervous system regulation and for responding to life with more intention instead of reacting on autopilot.
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Brainspotting (BSP) is a focused, brain-body approach that helps people access and process emotional pain, trauma, and stuck experiences that can be hard to put into words. By working with where the eyes naturally rest while noticing what comes up in the body, clients can process things at a deeper level than talk alone. The goal is not to force anything, but to allow the nervous system to release what it’s been holding so people can feel more grounded, regulated, and emotionally free.
Learn more about Brainspotting (BSP).
My approach is flexible and tailored to each person’s unique needs. I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals, attachment based therapy, mindfulness practices, and Brainspotting (BSP). I help people make sense of their emotions, understand and shift old patterns or relationship wounds, and reconnect with themselves in a way that feels more compassionate, authentic, and emotionally balanced.