About Therapy Thrives | Mental Health & Trauma Specialist

My Approach is Client Centered

“Sometimes, the bravest and hardest thing you will ever have to do is show up.” Brene’ Brown

Do you want to feel...

Compassionate?

As a therapist, I strive to build trust and offer a warm environment that feels safe to share, explore, learn, and grow in. Whether over telehealth or in-person, if you are ready and committed to the process, it is possible to make positive and lasting changes.

Theories

Emotional Focused Therapy

Internal Family Systems

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Brainspotting

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)

EFT is a collaborative and structured therapy approach that helps individuals and couples break out of negative communication cycles and create a more secure and emotionally fulfilling connection with each other. The healing in EFT comes from re-establishing emotional safety, security, and intimacy through increased self-awareness and the development of improved communication and responsiveness within the relationship.

Creating a Safe Space

The therapist helps create a safe and non-judgmental environment where individuals or couples can express their emotions and vulnerabilities without fear.

Identifying Negative Patterns

The therapist helps individuals and couples identify and understand negative interaction patterns that lead to emotional disconnection or conflict.

Exploring Emotions

The therapy process encourages participants to explore and express their deeper or primary emotions and needs. This helps them become more aware of their own emotional responses and their partners.

Restructuring Attachment

The therapist focuses on restructuring attachment bonds. This means helping individuals or couples understand how their attachment needs to drive their relationship behaviors and reactions.

Promoting Emotional Engagement

The therapist assists individuals and couples in re-establishing emotional engagement with each other. This involves helping partners express and respond to each other's emotions and needs more positively and securely

Reframing Perspectives

The therapist helps individuals reframe their perspectives and look for a deeper understanding of their emotional responses, often from longing for connection and security rather than focusing on “surface-level arguments” and trying to make sense of them.

Creating New Interaction Patterns

Through guided interventions, the therapist helps clients create new, healthier communication patterns that foster emotional connection and intimacy.

Consolidating Changes

As individuals and couples experience positive changes in their emotional connection and communication, the therapy process helps them consolidate these changes and maintain healthier patterns long term.

Are you experiencing the following?

Anxiety and Depression
Overwhelming emotions, stress, grief, anger, or sadness
Relationship problems with partners, family members, or friends
Conflict resolution
Lack of communication and intimacy
Significant life changes
Past or present trauma
Personal growth
Parental or co-parenting guidance
Feelings of loneliness, social isolation, or difficulty in making and maintaining relationships.
Grief, loss or sudden life-crisis
Chronic illness
Stress management

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems Therapy is a Therapy used to understand our different parts, their needs and how they have been created to protect and help us cope with past trauma. Together, we will learn to connect with and listen to our different parts in order to understand their needs and heal from past trauma, leading to greater self-awareness and emotional well-being. IFS work can help individuals identify and integrate the different aspects of their inner world while promoting increased self-compassion, healing, and personal growth.

WHAT IS BRAINSPOTTING? It’s particularly useful because trauma isn’t always accessible through conscious thought, but Brainspotting accesses the body’s natural ability to heal, promoting emotional release and long-lasting healing. It’s a gentle, non-invasive way to resolve trauma, helping individuals feel more present, calm, and in control of their emotional responses. Brainspotting is effective for trauma because it directly accesses the brain’s deeper, subconscious regions where trauma is stored. By focusing on specific eye positions linked to traumatic memories, it allows the brain and body to process and release unresolved trauma. This approach bypasses the thinking mind, reaching the emotional core, making it a powerful, non-invasive method for deep healing.

“Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

Suzan Lori-Parks