A trauma-informed approach aims to help you develop a sense of safety with your therapist through unconditional empathy and careful attention to your emotional experience. While I recognize many traumas are ongoing, I hope to provide you with some tools you can use when the world inside and outside feels overwhelming. I will support you in processing traumatic material at a pace that feels right for your nervous system. 

Harm Reduction is a more nuanced option than abstinence. Every relationship we’re a part of has risks and benefits, including but not limited to our relationships to drugs. At One Drop at a Time, I hold a harm reduction lens when working with clients around behaviors that may involve some risk - from drug use, to who you date, I will meet you where you are and walk shoulder to shoulder with you. Instead of stigmatizing or shaming, I create space to explore with curiosity, and help you define for yourself what you want your life to look like and what might be getting in the way of making changes.

Many aspects of our lives affect our mental health, including community, physical health, basic needs, sexuality, gender, class, disability, spirituality, experiences of marginalization, and more. Instead of seeing these issues as separate, I consider all parts of your lived experience to be relevant to healing. At times, I may invite you to review resources to support your healing process, or help you navigate complex systems.

Also, I learned from my IFS training that each individual is multiplicity - meaning, we are made up of many, many, MANY parts. Giving each part respect is of utmost importance. They each were born out of and played a major role in your story- before asking them to change, we need to make sense of them; hear them.