Consultation

Therapy can involve exposing ourselves to intense and overwhelming emotions as we hold our client’s psychic material. Navigating our own internal states that get brought up in reaction to our client’s suffering is at the core of successful therapeutic treatment. By examining and tending to our own internal experience we can unlock a deeper capacity of holding and attending to our clients. Many therapists can feel alone and unsupported in this aspect of their work and can end up exhausted and burnt out. Supporting yourself with attentive and curious consultation can enliven and enrich your practice and your sense of yourself as a therapist.

My approach to consultation is to help you sit more deeply with the stuck places your clients evoke in you. Through exploring countertransference, reverie, and psychoanalytic theory, we can better understand and interpret the unconscious communications from your clients and identity new ways to move through impasse, dissociation, and boredom.

I bring a depth oriented, psychoanalytic frame to my conceptualization of both my clinical and  consultation work. Whether this is your own personal frame, or you have a different theoretical model, I will help you articulate and clarify your own personal theory of what it means to be a therapist. We all have implicit theories we work with whether we realize it or not - making these theories explicit can strengthen your clinical foundation and deepen your confidence.

I have particular experience in:

  • Treatment of addiction and alcoholism

  • Psychoanalytic couples therapy

  • PTSD / Complex PTSD / Trauma healing

  • Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory

  • Reverie and intersubjectivity

  • Relational approaches to psychotherapy

  • Working in the transference / countertransference dynamic


Supervision

I am a BBS approved supervisor and offer supervision to AMFTs, as well as ACSWs and APCCs under certain conditions. I provide supervision to associates within agency or group practice contexts, and I also offer associateship opportunities to therapists who are interested in building their own private practices.

Being a pre-licensed therapist carries with it its own unique stressors and challenges. Finding a supervisor who aligns with your values and clinical perspective can make a profound difference in your growth. My goal is to provide supervision that supports your clinical and professional development and is attuned, reflective, and curious.


Business Coaching

Graduate school trains us to become successful clinicians, but not to become successful business owners. Many therapists find themselves at a point in their career where they would like to build a private practice but don’t know where to start. Therapists who do start their own practices find that they are woefully unprepared for the realities of running an effective business and growing their practice to the place they would like it. 

It is both within reach and incredibly rewarding to run your own private practice, and if you are interested but you don't know where to start, I offer business coaching to help you start your practice or revamp and improve your existing practice. As a therapist myself I know the ins and outs of what it is like to build your own practice, and I understand the unique emotional stressors we face as therapists including impostor syndrome and self confidence.

I offer guidance in:

  • Practice set up and systems

  • Website development and SEO

  • Branding and aesthetics

  • Fees and insurance

  • Internal processes and workflow

  • Mindset shifts and overcoming impostor syndrome

  • S-Corp incorporation decisions

  • Tax planning and accounting


Therapy for Therapists

Therapists need therapy too. So much of our work is shaped by our own internal states - our capacity to reflect, contain, and navigate emotional material. Often the places we get stuck with our clients are the places that our own wounding prevents us from being able to offer the holding environment our clients need.  By increasing awareness and ability to navigate your own internal landscape, you will feel much more comfortable and confident in your ability to show up and support your clients.

As someone who is in ongoing therapy myself, I consider it the cornerstone of my effectiveness and resilience as a clinician. Therapy for therapists can also be a legitimate business expense, making it both personally and professionally beneficial.