Services
Whether you are struggling with your sense of self, managing your stress level, or experiencing existential discomfort, m+m mental health counseling seeks to join you in boosting your insight, improving relationships, clarifying your values, and making meaning.
I have experience in aiding students, parents, children, artists, managers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, in processing of traumatic childhood experiences, life transitions (including, moving toward or away from relationships, jobs, birth, schools, death), or simply managing daily stressors. You may find yourself in a particular niche in which I specialize.
Millennial/Gen Z Mental Health
The world has grown quite complex and young adults have a particular task of coping with their present and negotiating their past while navigating an unknown future. The exponential expansion of our world over the last three decades has shaped young minds in ways that are just now becoming apparent.
While each generation has had their own anxieties, young folks have the privilege of sorting through intergenerational events and emotional difficulties that have been bestowed upon them by nature of time.
To continue to sort through these landmark events that are both personal and communal, contact me.
High Functioning Anxiety
The thing is, because of your high functioning anxiety, you could probably write this blurb for me. Expectations are high, especially for yourself. Anxiety doesn’t keep you from functioning because dysfunction is not an option. Anxiety keeps you afloat at work, in your relationships, and with your hobbies. Anxiety keeps you from noticing your own needs unless they are in service of task completion.
What does it take for you to notice yourself, your body, and the world around you? When was the last time you slowed down? What are the ways in which years of perfectionism have been tearing at you? When was the last time you felt expansive?
What happens when you are faced with the reality that most things are not under your control?
Before you try to fix the problem with a “why am I like this” spiral, consider working with a guide. Contact me for more!
Emotional
Neglect
It’s difficult for us to make meaning in our lives when we are unsure of our wants and needs. When we get stuck, we become “anxious,” “frustrated,” and “bored.” Although there are times when we are explicitly feeling these emotions; often these emotions are used to label feelings that are beyond our awareness.
Many of us did not have our emotions validated. What’s more, many of us were not taught to label our emotions. Sitting with an emotion is just as important as determining whether there is a way to “fix” the situation that led us to manifest that big feeling.
When we neglect a part of ourselves, it can manifest as trouble at work, in relationships, or even in our physical health. As we develop insight about our emotions it can take some time to manage a mindful approach rather than blaming and punishing.
If you’d like to begin learning about your feelings, validating yourself, and providing the compassion that all beings deserve (would you really talk to your friend the way you talk to yourself?), contact me.
Therapy for Weirdos
You guys, there was never anyone like me. I always had friends, but I was also always “weird”—a label bestowed upon me which I owned immediately. Something was different.
Although I wasn’t interested in fitting in, I also didn’t feel disdain for my classmates. It was a strange situation that didn’t leave me feeling isolated until years later.
Whether on the spectrum of neurodivergency or neurotypical, I’m here to hear about your childhood interests that linger to this day, the ways in which you felt alone, close to others, or transcendent, and process your life with you from multiple lenses; one of which may be some regular-old weirdness.
Contact me. Let’s get into it.