Potential space refers to what is created when we are in relationship - with ourselves, others, art, nature, and more.
Through connection we find potentials, possibilities, and pathways towards ourselves.
In the potential space created in therapy we practice paying attention, asking what else is possible, and creating something with what emerges.
What Working Together Looks Like
Therapy is a relationship. In our work together I am present and with you. I believe you and believe in you.
Therapy is an offering and commitment of resources (including your time, energy, and presence) to understanding and tending to what you want to give attention and effort to. I aim to co-create a therapy space that is non-judgmental, authentic, and collaborative.
I am guided by and root my practices in relational, trauma-informed, and creativity-based frameworks. These therapeutic orientations are, for me, inherently intertwined and intrinsically decolonial.
I am relational in my practice, knowing that we are relational beings who are shaped through our relationships (of all kinds) throughout our lives. This includes understanding vulnerability, emotional expression, sensitivity, and relational needs as connective languages and part of our aliveness - not things that need to be “fixed.”
Examples of trauma-informed practices include depathologizing responses to violence and harm (systemic and otherwise), recognizing the presence and impact of oppressive systems, supporting your autonomy, and honoring your pace by following and trusting it (you). It also includes valuing personal, cultural, spiritual, and ancestral knowledge as well as knowledge gained through lived experience.
My practice is rooted in creativity. Creativity invites you to be in process - to explore, reflect, practice, and experiment. It offers space for your emotions and expression, for imagining and meaning making. Creativity meets you where you are and reflects you back to you. It does this while offering a continuous reminder of your access to choice and creative freedom – inviting you to be in an engaged, responsive, and present relationship with yourself and your life.
I am committed to my own ongoing growth and learning. I believe personal healing is part of collective liberation and I am committed to decolonization/healing/repair as lifelong practices.
It is truly an honor and a privilege to be in therapeutic relationships with those I get to work with.
I hold this work dearly.