Integrative Depth Psychology: Empowerment through inner work

How Integrative Depth Psychology can help

Integrative depth psychology is a collaborative, mindfulness-based therapy that works to help you feel more grounded in the present, capable of navigating your life and achieving your goals. Importantly, this approach brings together diversity and LGBTQ affirmative therapy as well as different trauma-informed modalities.  In this way you can access a deeper sense of empowerment by working through areas of difficulty, sometimes rooted in the past, that can underlie anxiety, depression, intimacy issues, or addictions. As a result, many will notice a growing and lasting resiliency in the form of greater calm, energy for life, capacity for close relationships, connection to community, cultural ancestries, and what brings you a sense of purpose.

Benefits of Integrative Depth Psychology:

• Addresses the root causes of challenges
• Centers on your present moment experience
• Increases ability to connect intimately with others
• Frees energy for pursuing important life goals

Diversity and LGBTQ Affirmative Therapy

The stress of an increasingly polarized, impersonal, and out-of-balance society disproportionately impacts targeted racial, religious, gender, and sexual minorities.  Moreover, this minority stress can be on top of coping with difficulties from the past or in current relationships resulting in feeling stuck, powerless, exhausted, angry or scared. In this state it’s easy to go into auto-pilot mode, to check out with our intimate partners, family, friends, or even oneself.

Tools to affirm diverse cultural identities, bodies, and knowledge

• Detangling from internalized patterns of injustice and misinformation such as internalized racism, sexism, or transphobia
• Exploration of ancestral and cultural knowledge
• Navigating multiple intersecting identities (e.g. race, gender, and class)

Additionally, as an outgrowth of a generation of LGBTQ civil rights advocacy and research, LGBTQ affirmative therapy works with practices that proactively honor and respect Queer, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Non-Binary, and Allied individuals, families, communities, as well as our unique histories, cultures, and spiritualities.

My LGBTQ affirmative commitment

• Honoring LGBTQ ways of being
• Respecting the intersections of LGBTQ and other cherished cultural identities
• Staying current and rooted in evidence based practices

Working with a qualified integrative depth psychologist is the next step

The journey of professionally guided self exploration, whether done individually or as a couple, is meant to guide you toward known and newly discovered resources inside of yourself and within your most meaningful relationships.

As a licensed clinical psychologist with over twenty five years of experience both in community mental health and in private practice settings, I bring my commitment to share with you what I have learned (and unlearned) over these years. My work as an integrative depth psychologist–bringing together strategies from the most effective approaches–allows me to confidently focus on my top goal: supporting you in feeling more empowered and able to live your life to the fullest.