MODALITIES
Healing can take many paths. Therapy draws from different approaches to make space for the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and experiences that shape who we become.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT explores the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Sometimes the way we interpret a situation can intensify anxiety, fear, shame, anger, or sadness and influence what we do next. In this work, we also distinguish between what is a fact and what our mind has come to believe or assume about a situation.
Together, we identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, starting with the automatic thoughts that arise in response to an event or experience. From there, we trace these thoughts backward to understand where they may have come from and how they continue to show up in your emotions, choices, and behaviors today.
Awareness is the first step in processing and healing; we cannot work through what we do not yet understand. In this process, we approach your inner world with curiosity, learning to become a creator of curiosity rather than judgment, and develop practical ways of responding differently while still making space for the emotions underneath them.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Trauma-informed therapy recognizes that the ways we think, feel, react, connect, and cope are often shaped by what we have lived through. Responses such as shutting down, avoiding, overthinking, staying constantly alert, people-pleasing, or needing control may have developed as ways of creating safety or getting through difficult experiences. Rather than asking, “What is wrong with you?” the work becomes curious about what happened, how the mind and body learned to adapt, and whether those protective patterns are still needed in the same way today.
Healing does not always require revisiting painful memories or retelling experiences before it feels safe to do so. Sometimes the work begins with noticing what is happening in the present, how an emotion feels, where it shows up in the body, what may be bringing it forward, and where it tends to lead. The past can be approached gently, at a pace that respects readiness, without forcing a return to experiences that still feel too painful. Safety, choice, collaboration, trust, and respect remain at the center of the therapeutic process.
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy is built on the understanding that relationships have a powerful influence on how we come to see ourselves, what we expect from others, and how safe it feels to be close, vulnerable, or fully known. Experiences with family, partners, friendships, culture, and community can shape the ways we communicate, set boundaries, respond to conflict, ask for what we need, and protect ourselves when connection feels uncertain.
In therapy, we gently explore the patterns that tend to repeat in relationships, such as pulling away, overgiving, people-pleasing, shutting down, becoming guarded, fearing rejection, or struggling to trust. The goal is not to blame the past or label these patterns as wrong, but to understand where they came from, what they may have helped protect, and whether they still serve the life and relationships being built today.
The therapeutic relationship itself can also become a safe place to practice being seen, heard, understood, and honest without having to perform or hide parts of the self. Over time, this work can help create deeper self-awareness, stronger boundaries, more authentic connection, and relationships that feel more mutual, secure, and emotionally fulfilling.
OTHER MODALITIES USED:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)-Informed Therapy
Explores the different parts of ourselves and the roles they may have developed to protect, cope, avoid pain, or carry difficult emotions.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Helps explore beliefs shaped by trauma or painful experiences and gently examine whether those beliefs still fit life in the present.
Mindfulness & Somatic Awareness
Builds awareness of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations while creating more space for grounding, regulation, and connection with the present.
Person-Centered Therapy
Creates a supportive and nonjudgmental space for self-exploration, reflection, clarity, and a deeper understanding of personal needs and values.
Culturally Responsive Therapy
Makes space for culture, identity, family, community, values, and lived experiences as meaningful parts of the therapeutic process.