Following an initial phone consultation, we will schedule a therapeutic intake, in which we will review paperwork and address any questions and logistical concerns you may have before completing the intake assessment. This is a lengthy diagnostic interview that briefly explores your present concern(s), assesses your current symptoms and functioning, obtains relevant history, and identifies strengths and resources you can draw upon. 

You and I will clarify what you’d like to address in therapy and how you’d like to go about it, establishing therapeutic goals and creating a treatment plan reflective of your needs as well as your intersecting identities and preferences while developing a trusting and collaborative therapeutic relationship. We will then begin the work of exploring your therapeutic concerns more thoroughly while expanding coping skills and resources, building on your strengths and inner wisdom. From there therapy becomes more challenging as we deepen the therapeutic work through integrating new experiences with processing the past, overcoming what was previously rigid and limiting by moving towards your goals, while engaging mindfully in the present moment. This work, and especially trauma therapy, takes vulnerability and courage, is messy, and is necessary in order to reconnect with or manifest your ideal self and improve your experience of life, relationships, and communities.