The future of mental health care rests with the forging of data-driven science rooted in research and a renewed faith in the wisdom of holistic traditions of healing that have been verified through other time-honored standards and practices. The rise of Integrative Psychology is a response to this development in the field.
My work as an Integrative Psychologist is depth oriented, which means that I look to the unconscious mind as a key to wellness, relying on research validated contemporary psychoanalytic techniques. My work is also trauma-informed, meaning that I am trained to assess and help alleviate post-traumatic conditions that can directly impact quality of life through other evidence based modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and neurotherapy.
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My orientation is rooted in an appreciation of social and cultural diversity, and I recognize the meaningfulness of social identities as well as the cumulative traumatic stress of cultural oppression, such as systemic racism and sexism. Working as an LGBTQ affirmative psychologist I recognize sexual and gender variance as normal and societal intolerance of this natural variance as a form of profound social misunderstanding and aggression. Helping others get disentangled from any internalization of this social problem (i.e. internalized homo/bi/trans/queer phobia) and closer in touch with their own truth has been at the heart of my clinical training and practice.
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