Rebel against your inner-critic.
Nurture your vulnerability as a strength.
Empower your creative, resilient self.
Individual Therapy for Adults
ONLINE COUNSELING // HOUSTON, TEXAS
My focus...​
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Providing an accepting, pressure-free space so you can show up fully as yourself and process the everyday nuances of being a human.
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Intense emotions related to anxiety, depression, & mood issues.
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Perfectionism, people-pleasing, & approval-seeking.
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Past childhood experiences in which core emotional needs were not consistently met.
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Offering a progressive, safe space to explore spiritual trauma, LGBTQ issues, & alternative life paths.
Personal Development
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acceptance, connection , and validation.
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a sounding board to help you develop insight and process complex emotions and conflicting thoughts.
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support and accountability to get you through difficult life transitions.
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tools to help you stay grounded and engaged in your life so you can be the architect of your own destiny.
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strategies for building and strengthening relationships.
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guidance towards getting your legit needs met in legit ways.
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clarification for your current focus, direction, and future vision.
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encouragement to build spiritual-disciplines around gratitude and mindfulness.
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empowerment through discovering your strengths and values.
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Mood &
Anxiety Issues
Depression and anxiety lie to us; they bind and gag our intuition so we cannot trust ourselves. Having a supportive, trusting therapy relationship can make all the difference. I will help you defeat these enemies and center with your true-self.
In therapy, you can learn to...
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express your feelings through healthy and creative outlets.
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rebel from the constant worrying and pessimism.
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maintain groundedness, even within moments of chaos.
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create meaning from life's setbacks and disappoints.
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embrace what makes you different.
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communicate your needs and feelings more effectively.
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build protective yet flexible inter- and intra-personal boundaries.
- connect with others and alleviate loneliness.
- accept the things you cannot change and change the things you can.
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improve your skill with perspective-taking and metacognition.
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nurture your capacity for compassion and empathy.
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discuss medication and develop a relationship with a psychiatrist, if needed.
Developing in an environment in which our core emotional needs are not appropriately or consistently met has a lasting impact, potentially contributing to painful self-doubt and difficult adult relationships.
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In therapy, we work together to lessen the negative impact of those needs going unmet by...
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establishing, over time, a trusting relationship in which I can serve to meet some of those unmet needs by providing the validation, acceptance, boundaries, and relaxation necessary for healing.
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uncovering the root cause of damaging relationship patterns.
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grieving for and making peace with your past.
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building awareness of the current mechanisms that perpetuate childhood unmet needs well into adulthood.
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revising limited beliefs and unhelpful behavior patterns with truth-based, balanced alternatives.
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developing a healthy relationship with your vulnerable inner child.
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countering dysfunctional levels of criticism and unrelenting standards (towards yourself and others).
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creating limits and self-disciplines that help you meet personal responsibilities and self-care needs.
Relational Trauma
Pleasing, Producing, Performing, Perfecting...
Sounds exhausting, right? People-pleasing and approval-seeking can lead to resentment, disappointment, and passive-aggressiveness. The unrelenting standards and harsh demands of perfectionism are depleting and demoralizing over time. Burnout and avoidant procrastination are not uncommon consequences. An overly harsh inner critic may be self-inflicted and projected onto others.
Therapy can help you...​
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build self-awareness by exploring underlying causes, past experiences, and current triggers for perfectionism or people-pleasing issues.
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confront and reframe irrational beliefs and negative thought patterns that contribute to problematic tendencies.
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set healthy boundaries and communicate assertively, empowering you to say no when necessary, prioritize self-care, and express your needs and desires confidently without guilt.
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establish effective coping strategies, stress management tools, and mindfulness techniques.
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develop self-compassion and flexibility in order to embrace imperfections, allow room for human error, and reduce the need for external validation.
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explore and honor your individual interests, values, preferences, and desires as you reduce an other-oriented focus and self-neglect.
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set realistic goals and foster a more balanced approach to life.
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build resilience and long term change.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
- Carl R. Rogers
