My Values and Approach

At Conscious Counseling, it’s my first priority to meet you, the client, where you are and build a foundation of trust. I want every part of you to feel welcomed in our work together. I don’t believe in strict rules for how therapy “should” go and I see my role as someone with expertise and knowledge who can accompany you on the journey to unburdening yourself from pain and trauma while honoring that you know yourself best.

I use a non-pathologizing approach that allows us to look at your symptoms and patterns with compassion. Through exploring your lived experience, we learn how these symptoms and patterns were created to keep you safe.

In my work, I make it a point to acknowledge the larger systems at play that stifle and oppress you, including the mental health system. I am constantly striving to learn how to lead with a decolonizing approach and to use approaches meant to address all the ways that trauma impacts us.

Therapy is a very vulnerable thing and I am always deeply grateful that clients choose me to accompany them through both life’s joys and hurts.