Meet Christina!

If you choose to work with me, you’ll find an honest, compassionate, and non-judgmental therapeutic environment where we can collaboratively focus on:

• Gaining a deeper understanding of your true self

• Replacing fear and shame with self-acceptance and compassion

• Establishing healthy boundaries that honor your needs and desires

• Addressing barriers that prevent you from building healthier, more meaningful relationships

• Replacing feelings of inadequacy with confidence and self-worth

• Exploring your intersectional identities and healing the wounds of oppression

• Clarifying your values and creating a more purposeful life

In my work with couples and polycules, I take an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach, which emphasizes the importance of emotional connection in relationships. Whether you're navigating monogamous, nonmonogamous, or polyamorous dynamics, I understand the unique complexities of these relationship structures, particularly within the LGBTQ+ community. My role as your therapist is to facilitate deeper emotional connection by helping you truly hear one another and become more emotionally accessible, responsive, and engaged. Together, we’ll work toward building the relationship you've been longing for, whether that’s with one partner or many.

I strive to offer an inclusive space where all relationship structures, identities, and experiences are respected, and where you feel empowered to show up fully and authentically.

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Clinical & Theoretical Orientation:

While I draw from a number of approaches depending on each client’s unique needs, my approach to therapy tends to align most with the psychodynamic, interpersonal process, and multicultural approaches. Thus, I believe that our past creates the lens through which we see the world, including our relationship with those around us. Gaining insight into our patterns and these lenses can allow us greater choice and freedom in our present and future. In examining how your past has impacted the way in which you view others and how you interact in relationships, I use the relationship between you and I as a vehicle for change. My aim is to create a corrective experience for you and create a space where you can try out different ways of being and interacting with others, if you so choose.

 

Further, I recognize that the identities that we hold impact the way in which we navigate the world. I recognize that, often, people are capable of much more than we settle for, and society can stifle our ability to live up to this potential. In taking this into consideration, I endeavor to empower you and help you to work toward your potential and happiness.

 

My clinical work has been heavily influenced by my social justice and anti-oppression values. I seek to empower my clients by exploring how dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression have shaped their lives and/or resulted in trauma. I am on an un-ending journey to do better and be better for my clients, both personally and as a therapist. I strive for cultural humility and to provide the most culturally-responsive services. I reflect frequently and check myself and my biases, furthering my understanding of other identities, and repelling society’s false and harmful messages.