My Approach Is . . .
Collaborative
My work is a collaboration, an active partnership that we build together. My role is to meet you where you’re at, help you clarify where you’re going, and stay responsive to your needs and feedback along the way. Together, we’ll shape a process that best serves you, grounded in mutual trust, respect, and connection.
Interactive
Compassionate listening is one of the cornerstones of this work, but my style is also interactive. I ask insightful questions, engage you in thought-provoking discussions, propose new ways of looking at things, and suggest techniques to help deepen your experience and draw out potential solutions.
Non-Pathologizing
I believe this work should be kind and curious. It should be a space where you feel genuinely valued and accepted just as you are. I view troubles as gateways to new information and understanding, not as indicators that there is something wrong with you. I’m most interested in helping you see what’s right with you!
Forward-Focused
Your past is important. This work provides a safe place to process the past so you can better understand how it shapes and informs your present. However, the real goal of our work is to help you move forward! Together we will honor the story that was and craft an empowering narrative towards your future.
Strengths-Based
Everyone has a unique set of qualities, talents, and skills available to them, and there is great value simply in who you are. My approach is to help you recognize and build on the strengths, resources, and resiliency you already possess so you can play to your strengths and draw from these skills during challenging times.
Quirky
Sometimes my style can be a bit quirky, playful, surprising. If that approach interests you, we can explore nighttime dreams, engage in role-play, follow irrational tendencies, track the symbolic and mythic, invoke storytelling and imagination, and honor the “crazy wisdom” at work within you.
I support the deepest, most authentic parts of you even if they are out-of-the-ordinary, wild, edgy, or shy.
Foundations That Inform My Coaching Work
There are many different approaches to personal growth and emotional support, each offering valuable ways to encourage awareness, resilience, and change. My own coaching approach is integrative, meaning I draw from several complimentary perspectives to create a process that’s flexible and responsive to your individual needs, situation, personality, and comfort level.
My work is informed by:
• Family Systems Therapy, which helps illuminate the emotional patterns and dynamics that shape relationships.
• Process Oriented Psychology, which invites awareness at the edges of identity and celebrates the diversity of your inner experiences.
• Depth Psychology, which honors the symbolic and intuitive layers.
• Perinatal Psychology, which acknowledges the mental, emotional, and relational processes that occur during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum.
• Narrative Therapy, which explores the power of story in shaping self-perception and meaning.
• Positive Psychology, which focuses on personal strengths, resilience, and the cultivation of purpose.