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Light on the Stairs

My Vision

Counseling and psychotherapy is challenging, and yet it can yield wonderful results with the right therapeutic alliance and relationship. I’ve been in counseling for over 10 years, working in both school settings and private practice, doing individual, group and family work.

My theoretical orientation and therapeutic approach includes an integrative treatment approach to best fit each person with existential therapy, client-centered psychodynamic and family systems modalities.

These elements involve:

  1. an emphasis on psychoeducation and skill-building to provide some basic information about who you are and how you tend to function in your daily lives;

  2. an increase in awareness and mindfulness of your internal processes (e.g. recognition of thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs) and your interpersonal interactional styles (e.g. recognition of unhealthy and self-defeating thought and behavior patterns);

  3. the development of some understanding of how you came to learn these dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors related to messages you received from family of origin, childhood, and cultural experiences and influences; and

  4. the development of a sense of empowerment to assist you in taking more personal responsibility in order to actively make positive choices to work on changing parts of yourself and your life that have not been working well for you.

 

My style of practice is based on ideas of honesty, respect, empathy, genuineness, and insight. 

No one knows you like you know you.

You are the expert in your life; I’m a guest on your journey.

I am a relationship-focused, trauma-informed Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

           I can provide in-person or telehealth therapy in Washington, D.C., Maryland Virginia and in Texas via telehealth.

My areas of specialty include:

  • Adolescents & their families

  • Relationship Challenges

  • Coming Out 

  • Gender Dsyphoria

  • LGBTQI2S+ issues- sexuality & gender ​​

  • BIPOC community

  • ADHD and the Autistic Spectrum

  • Grief & Loss

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Trauma

  • Providing relationship therapy to transgender individuals in a trans-affirming and warm environment. 

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