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About My Clients
I love working with a wide variety of issues, but nobody is a perfect fit for everyone. People that tend to find success with me as a therapist come to me with issues such as trauma or PTSD, personality disorders, severe depression or anxiety, and identity crisis issues. I work primarily with adults, but I am willing to work with adolescents if it is a good fit! I absolutely love working with anyone from an alternative community. If you don't fit in with society you will for sure fit in with me!
My Background and Approach
I have a bachelors and masters degree from the University of Utah both of which are in social work. I am also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Utah. Now that the boring stuff is out of the way, my main approach to therapy is to empower the people I work with to discover the strengths that allow them to accomplish their goals. I attempt to accomplish this with a foundational approach by trying to target the root of the problem rather than the resulting issue. Think of it as trying to put out the fire instead of fanning the smoke. I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Accelerate Resolution, and Internal family systems therapy, but I also use techniques and concepts from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. More boring stuff, but the gist is that the primary approaches I use teach you how to heal or change, and the secondary approaches help with understanding yourself better, and to cope with symptoms effectively.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that everyone has a right to pursue what makes them happy, and has the right to an environment in which they can engage in that pursuit. Often society creates barriers for many of us to engage with this process. As a therapist (and a person) one of my main goals is to deconstruct these barriers as much as we can both for the individual, and for our larger society. I am accepting of any and all identities! Everyone should have the power and ability to define themselves how they choose.