Trauma informed therapy and parenting support
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You might need help navigating new stressors during this season of life, and sometimes we all need a reminder that life remains full of potential regardless of the circumstances. The way you manage stress, anxiety, and/or depression can have a deep effect on yourself and those around you. An expert can help you sharpen your ability to cope with the demands of work and other responsibilities so you can enjoy life every single day.
Trauma unhealed can resurface in many parts of our lives, and often it does so in our romantic or parent-child relationships. If you find yourself experiencing irritability, anger outbursts, sleeplessness, or self-sabotage you could be suffering from trauma. The primary goal for people who have experienced trauma, their families, and their care providers is recovery. Recovery may not necessarily mean complete freedom from post-traumatic effects, but the ability to live in the present without being overwhelmed with the thoughts and feelings from the past. Therapy provides a safe container to yell, curse, cry and say what is truly in your heart and mind.
Multicultural therapy is a form of talk therapy that aims to address the concerns of clients whose race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, income, disability status, or other social factor(s) falls outside of the majority or outside the dominant social group. The approach centers on the idea that demographic factors such as race, ethnicity, and gender identity playa critical role in how someone experiences the world and relates to others, and attempts to factor those realities into their treatment. Multicultural therapy also acknowledges that negative issues that arise for minority groups—such as oppression, stereotyping, racism, and marginalization—are relevant for mental health and illness and should be afforded special recognition during therapy. (Psychology Today Article,8/9/2022)
Relationships are a key part of the human experiences. Conflict within your relationships can be very distressing. Whether you are having challenges with your significant other, parent, child or boss we will work together to dive deep into what patterns are keeping you from experiencing joy and healthy interactions to its fullest. Through empirically validated interventions and exercises, we will learn and develop the skills you need to better manage conflict and get reconnected.
Very few things are as transformative as preparing for and experiencing pregnancy, parenthood or both. Requiring aspects of ourselves that we didn’t even realize we possessed, pushing us to grow in ways we may not have been prepared for or expected. So often we feel overwhelmed, inadequate, pressured and like what we do is never enough. It can be a lonely and disheartening experience, but you don’t have to do it alone. Whether you are a birth parent, adopted parent, bonus parent or caregiver of any kind your feelings are valid and giving yourself space to share and problem solve can be a transformative and healing process.
