​Why I Became a Therapist

​My personal history is the reason I became a therapist. My earliest experiences led to damaging internalizations which therapy was able to allow me to understand and to begin to heal from, and this same facilitation of healing is what I aim to bring to others. This impacts the way I approach therapy; I operate from a psychodynamic lens - the way of working which provided the best framework for understanding my own self. I bring the strength of my own experience as a client to my work - I have moved through that process all the way to the experience of love for myself, inside my own body. It was both a life-changing moment to feel this feeling, and one filled with grief - to realize that in all the years before that moment, I had not. I believe this is of critical importance for a therapist - to have been on the path too, in your own way, in order to be able to gently encourage others to traverse the path that lies before them.