Being a therapist is an immense gift and privilege - and a super weird one at that.

We’re entrusted with the inner thoughts, feelings, and desires of people we are meeting for the first time.
We model and teach healthy forms of communication, boundary-setting, and care … while we are also working on these things in our individual therapy.
We navigate our own feelings and countertransference that arise in session - sometimes having to table these feelings in service of our 8 back-to-back clients, waiting until our next free moment, hour, or day to finally feel our feelings.
We are intersectional therapists who share identities with clients we work with, which impacts our countertransference, our own trauma triggers, increased likelihoods of having overlapping communities/running into clients, etc.
We live and work under oppressive systems while also striving to support our clients who are also struggling within those same systems.

Together we will:

Focus on you and your needs, as a human, therapist, and healer
Provide space for your feelings and emotions specific to your clinical/professional work and connections to the personal (Our work is deeply personal. When we work on ourselves as individuals, it inevitably impacts how we show up as clinicians)
Reduce shame, imposter syndrome, and internalized false narratives about what it means to be a “good” therapist
Explore changes you can make to your therapy practice and life to support your needs - as well as work through the internal barriers to doing so

Collaboratively create a plan and connect you with resources to best support you moving forward
Support you in within your agency job and/or your private practice business (whether you have started your solo practice or you are contemplating starting your own)

Example questions we might explore together:

What schedules have worked/not worked for you in the past? (i.e. days off, times of day when you work best for clinical versus administrative work, cadence and frequency of vacation, max number of clients in a day)
What values feel compromised and what values feel honored in your current work?
What feelings arise when you consider centering your needs, whether it be in raising your fee, taking time off, or setting professional boundaries?
How do you want to show up as a therapist? How can you bring more of your authentic self into your work?
What hobbies and passions give you joy and help you connect to your identities outside of being a therapist?
What somatic exercises could support the emotions and stress you’re holding in your body?