Offerings

Individual Therapy

My speciality is in working with young adult individuals through an experiential, attachment-based and trauma-informed lens.

I support my clients with a number of issues - including, but not limited to:

  • the persistent experience of anxiety and depression

  • the grief around the loss of a loved one, an identity, or the state of the world

  • making meaning and navigating major life transitions such as a breakup or a career shift, a move across country and away from established support and familiarity

  • ongoing challenges with a particular relationship dynamic such as a sibling, a friend, a parent or a romantic partner

  • spiritual crisis stemming from religious trauma or the witnessing or direct experience of power misused within a spiritual community

  • the journey of healing and reconnecting to one’s own power following sexual assault or violence

  • processing ecological grief and finding deeper connection to the natural world

  • identifying and gaining confidence in their unique ability to contribute to the world

  • the persistent symptoms and challenges associated with a head injury (TBI)

  • exploring intimacy and deepening the sense of connection and satisfaction found in relationships

  • cultivating self-awareness and gaining clarity

In our work together, I customize my approach to you - most often drawing on my training in gestalt therapy, mindfulness, and other body-based modalities. In addition to my professional training, I often bring in other “tools” that I have found healing such as nature, yoga, meditation, writing and various forms of creative expression.

In my work with individuals, my hope is to create a welcoming and honest space for you to explore, integrate and make meaning of past experiences, so that you can contact greater clarity, possibility and joy in the present.

“My wife and I have seen several therapists throughout our 13 year relationship, with Sydney being our most recent couples counselor. She has such a genuinely kind spirit and helped us to feel comfortable immediately. Throughout each session, Sydney beautifully held space for my wife and I to process intense grief as well as learn how to communicate more clearly about what we need to feel connected to each other outside of our new motherhood roles. We are honored to recommend Sydney to anyone seeking counseling services as we were truly blessed by our experience with her.”

- Former Client

Couples Therapy

I specialize in supporting couples navigate their relationship using an experiential, trauma-informed and attachment-based approach that is infused with compassion, curiosity, directness, and humor.

Whether you have recently started dating or have been parenting togethers for years, seeking out counseling at any stage of a relationship can be an enriching opportunity for learning, self exploration and growth.

Below are examples of some goals that I support couples with:

  • finding clarity on longterm alignment and needs

  • experiencing enriched intimacy

  • improving communication, especially during times of conflict

  • developing a deepened sense of trust and connection

  • increasing awareness around self in the relationship

  • the ability to recognize ruptures in the relationship and experience repair

  • building intentionality around how you navigate shared space and shared lives; collaboration

  • finding strategies for maintaining energy and focus, rather than draining ourselves in a particular dynamic

I want to emphasize just how brave it can be to do this work with a partner - which can oftentimes look like individual work, together, or being witnessed in a highly vulnerable state.

In my work with couples, I begin with establishing contact, as sometimes we can become unaware of the ways we have not been seeing, hearing or feeling the people with whom we most intimately share our lives.

From here, we move into identifying the cycle that you may find yourselves stuck in, or the questions that you both are holding.

Our work may look different from session to session, working with whatever is happening in the here and now.

In my work with couples, I draw on my training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, gestalt therapy, mindfulness and other body-based modalities that support clients in understanding how their nervous systems work together.