Multicultural, LGBTQIAP+, and Neurodiversity-Affirming Mental Health Counseling. Trauma-informed for all approaches.
Welcome to a Safe Place for Transformation at Spectrum for Life
Life is challenging. Let’s meet this challenge together!
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As the founder of Spectrum for Life, I am here to support you as you navigate these challenges and transform yourself and your life on your terms.
Sometimes, when people find me, they feel so overwhelmed by their challenges that it can be hard to imagine that life can feel better. Life can feel like an unending struggle, or that life has no meaning.
Sometimes people are struggling with anxiety or depression- or cycling between the two. Sometimes people can feel like they are constantly masking or they may experience difficulty with understanding themselves and others or feeling understood.
These challenges can create many symptoms – mental, emotional, physical, and behavioral. Our experiences (past and present), and our response to life, creates an intertwined cycle. Because of these cycles, it can be hard to ↓
- imagine how to accept one’s self
- know how to manage conflicts
- get needs met
- have healthy, fulfilling relationships
- create a life that feels meaningful according to your own values
Spectrum for Life Counseling embraces Neurodiversity – the understanding that all human minds are unique and valuable.
Spectrum for Life priorities YOUR values and goals.
Some minds and ways of being are less common than others, but not less valuable!
But, our society still struggles with helping all people feel like they belong and are supported.
People with less common ways of being can benefit from extra understanding and support
Intersecting Spectrums
- autism, ADHD,
- gender and sexuality spectrums (LGBTQIAP+),
- developmental and physical health conditions,
- mental health conditions,
- histories of trauma, and more
Neurodiversity-Affirming approaches recognize that every person has their own unique mix of strengths and challenges. Neurodivergent people can have difficulty interacting in a world that does not recognize their challenges, strengths, value, and needs. I help clients:
- identify and use their strengths to improve their lives
- identify the challenges and conflicts that undermine thriving
Services
Individual
I provide counseling to help adolescents and adults cope with stress and achieve their potential.
Relationship (2+)
For established clients, I provide relationship building sessions on an individual case basis.
Workshops
My workshops help people improve skills related to self-advocacy, conflict resolution, leadership skills, relationship skills, self-determination and more
Practice Areas
Conditions
- trauma experiences and conditions
- anxiety
- depression with or without dissociation
- insomnia
- relationship conflict (family, romantic, friends, roommates, coworkers, etc)
- Marginalizing experiences
- Neurodivergent experiences and needs: autism spectrum, ADHD, & other neurodevelopmental conditions, LGBTQIAP+
Skills
I support clients in gaining skills such as:
- self-understanding (concept, preferences, needs, boundaries, world view)
- compassion (for self and others)
- self-regulation
- self-determination
- self-advocacy
- conflict resolution
- relationship skills
- leadership skills
Therapeutic Approaches
All approaches are simply tools. All approaches are modified to be trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming. I am WELL VERSED in the issues and benefits of each approach.
I work collaboratively with clients using approaches that are most meaningful and acceptable to them. I work with YOUR Choices.
- Person-Centered
- Strength-Based
- Solution-Focused
- Emotion Focused
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Radically Open and Traditional DBT
- Existential Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Modified Trauma Focused
- …and more
