SOCIAL WORK INTERN THERAPIST

SOCIAL WORK INTERN THERAPIST

GROUP PRACTICE OWNER AND CLINICAL DIRECTOR

Identity-based trauma occurs when due to your lived experiences or identities, you are not only treated differently; you continue to experience continue harm and emotional violence. This form of trauma cuts deep by impacting not only your perception of yourself, but your sense of belonging with others.

Many of us experience identity based trauma not as a one time experience, but as an ongoing one that we have to present as okay in the moment, but when we are alone, we experience the grief and pain.

Our approach first and foremost honors the lived experiences that got you to the room with us and we honor that you are looking for self discovery in your therapy. We support(and encourage!) you to:

1. Bring all parts of yourself: What does this mean? It means that everything that makes you who you are is not only WELCOME, but needed for the healing to occur.

2. There are many paths to the same solution, creating healing. In our practice, we take a PERSON CENTERED APPROACH. This means that we don’t pull from on modality. We pull from whatever we need to curate the best and most authentic therapeutic experience for you.

These theories were not made with many of us in mind (well, no one on our teamin mind!)

Because of this fact, the types of therapy we use are a combination of what we learned in school, holding space for your to just feel freely, and creating sustainble change.

The process depends on YOU and what you need. Isn’t the first step of healing beigg able to hold space for who you are AND know that your therapy space wants to do that for you? We think so!

Some modalities we use are:

Narrative Therapy

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Liberation Psychology

Gestalt Based Parts Work and Gestalt Therapy

Family Systems Theory

Feminist Theory

Emotional Focused Individual Therapy