Everyday there is a new opportunity to "dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends".
Poet, Aberjhani
Healing really is possible for all of us. Every person has the ability to work towards making their lives better by looking inward. We all have the ability to realize our fullest potential and within us all is a drive or need to strive for that.
I believe the things we think are a problem we need to solve, are actually the gold at both ends of the rainbow. In my experience clients go through a process unique to them in therapy. It is in this process that they find themselves more fully, relate to others with more understanding, and embrace their hurts as golden opportunities for transformation, purpose and inspiration.
Psychotherapy is a tool you can use to change your reactions, change the patterns in your life, and change your responses so that you can choose something new and better.
I am certified in EMDR and have seen clients make amazing progress once they have re-processed traumatic memories. They begin to link those memories to new perspectives that have been transformed by the process of re-processing.
Currently I am a Marriage and Family Therapist Associate with the State of Oregon under the Supervision of Josie Juhasz, MA, LPC. I collaborate with individuals of great diversity in backgrounds and work on things like abuse recovery, depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, addiction recovery, disordered eating recovery, racial and gender based trauma. I work with couples of all backgrounds on relationship issues, infidelity, broken trust, lack of communication, speaking up for needs, being heard, pregnancy loss, intimacy and sexuality.
I utilize powerful tools like EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-processing, CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, MBSR or Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, the Gottman Method and EFT or Emotion Focused Therapy. I hold a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Holistic Studies which included coursework in Systems Theory, training in the integration of Mind/Body/Spirit and courses in Somatic and Transpersonal therapies.
Reach out and get in touch. We can work on your journey to success together.
Patricia
I work with couples using Emotion Focused Therapy and Gottman interventions.
I work with adult Individuals on trauma, attachment, identity, body image, intuitive eating, gender, ADHD and relationships.
I work with trauma using EMDR to help desensitize symptoms.