What do anxiety, stress, and burnout have in common?

Anxiety, stress, and burnout can affect your mind and body. Common symptoms are worry, racing thoughts, exhaustion, frustration, self-doubt, and difficulty getting things done. I can help you understand and navigate your mental health challenges. As a specialist, I offer precision care to accelerate results.

Therapy can help with symptom management, increasing wellness, and addressing underlying issues. Anxiety and burnout can stem from typical life stress, toxic stress, trauma exposure, and unhealed social-emotional wounds. With the right support, you can recover and heal.

Therapy is a supportive relationship that is designed to empower you. My style of psychotherapy is mostly talk therapy with supportive skills coaching. I will listen deeply, ask exploratory questions, and help you make progress toward your goals.

My main approach is Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). CFT is about transformational learning and healing. Compassion can help you cultivate inner safety, stability, kindness, and wisdom. Compassion is great for issues like self-criticism, self-defeating behaviors, and difficult emotions. For example, I may suggest evidence-based tools like deep breathing, noticing your emotions, and challenging your thoughts. I may recommend brief homework assignments to maximize the benefits of therapy in your day-to-day life.

If you are looking for specific therapies, I am trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapies, and multiple trauma therapies.

I am a certified compassion fatigue professional. I have advanced training and experience treating conditions like burnout, empathy fatigue, caregiver fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Focusing on burnout recovery and resilience can lead to lasting change.

As a trauma-informed therapist, I am attentive to the ways that trauma and toxic stress, both past and present, may be affecting your mental health, quality of life, sense of identity, and psychological safety. 

I take a culturally sensitive and identity-affirming approach. I do my best to understand the personal, cultural, and situational factors that influence you, me, and therapy. I am comfortable talking openly about racial, ethnic, cultural, systemic, and intergenerational issues. I tend to be honest about who I am, what I know, and what I don’t know. I hope that my way of being in therapy can allow you to feel safe, respected, validated, and empowered.

Labels are tricky, but identity and culture are relevant in therapy. Some of the social/cultural communities I have served over the years include: people of color, women of color, multiracial, multiethnic, immigrant, able-bodied, disabled, neurodiverse, highly sensitive, queer, LGBTQIA+, and a variety of religious, spiritual, and philosophical orientations.