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Welcome!

I specialize in supporting clients who are in the process of leaving a religion or who have already done so. Some of my clients just started deconstruction, some left a religious group or cult years ago and wish to now process the ways in which their former religion might continue to impact them – and some of them are right smack in the middle of the process.

Being newly secular means that you might need support with:

  • navigating deconstruction

  • overcoming religious trauma and Adverse Religious Experiences (AREs)

  • healing from purity culture

  • understand how High Control Religions (HCRs) work

  • creating a new sense of self

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Each client comes in with a different set of goals. My role is to create a safe space where you can parse through old messages and analyze which ones you currently find beneficial and which ones you do not. It can be a liberating experience for you to better understand the link between what you were first taught as a small child and your current thoughts, behaviors and fear patterns.

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Private
Psychotherapy Practice 
Specializing in 
 

Supporting
Clients
Who Are
 

Secular-

Curious

Some of these early messages might surround issues on:

• your inherent worth as a human
• power, body autonomy, safety, setting and keeping boundaries
• whether or not you have the right to your feelings, thoughts, opinions and wants
• purity culture, surveillance culture, shame, fear, power, gender, gender roles and sexuality,
• your right (or lack of right) to question the teachings or leaders of your group.

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Maybe this is your first time considering therapy, and you're wondering how it would all work. I mean, there's probably been a lot of things that you've been keeping pretty close to your chest, and the idea of discussing them with a therapist might be... kind of weird. Although you know that theoretically therapy should be helpful, getting THAT real, THAT vulnerable, might seem not even icky, but also pretty scary, if not downright impossible. I get it. The good news is that you'll remain in charge throughout the whole process.  It's a judgement-free zone where you can freely discuss what's going on for you and find practical ways forward. How's that sound?

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You might be worried that therapy might be a bit too 'woo-woo' of a process for you. Well, rest assured that at least with me, it won't be. The good news is that psychotherapy's long since left the realm of the nebulous and is considered a quantifiable process, firmly rooted in years of scientific research and evidence-based practice. As your therapist, I'll be there alongside to help you better understand how your thoughts, emotions, behaviors and experiences correlate.

Thanks to my life experiences I come to the therapeutic relationship from a variety of cultures. Think of me as an American / Latin-American / European hybrid. I know what it's like to adapt to new circumstances, and to learn how to summon the inner strength required to survive and thrive. English is the language I speak the best, and I also provide therapy in French and Spanish. 

Reach out if you have any questions – you and I can have a 20-min. chat (well, more like a 20-min. minimum chat) before you decide if you would like to work with me. Remember, if you do decide to move forward and choose me as your therapist and then change your mind, no worries—  what matters is that you find the right therapist for you!

Virtual Therapy in:

English

French

Spanish

Life is precious and we’re only here for pretty much the blink of an eye. My goal is to help my fellow humans make the very best of their time on Earth, or what scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan dubbed… the ‘Pale Blue Dot.’

 

I look forward to hearing from you!

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