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Lee Psychological Services, LLC
Individual
Therapy
Many of life's challenges stem from difficulties in how we navigate our relational, social, and cultural worlds. Within these contexts, individuals develop ideas about themselves, the world, and their place in the world. These ideas do not just reside in the mind but are experienced in their body and through their emotions. Sometimes these experiences can be immensely painful, especially when people's relationships and social/cultural contexts have harmed them. I seek to help individuals by building a strong therapeutic relationship, in which they can explore the patterns related to the pain they have experienced in life and identify the ways in which they can feel empowered to make changes in themselves, their relationships, and their social/cultural worlds. I also help individuals safely experience emotions that may previously have felt intolerable due to harmful relationships and contexts. I help them to use these emotions to identify their unmet needs and the power of the therapeutic relationship to gain a sense of agency and self-worth. I believe that true healing involves not only changing thoughts or understanding but also emotional and relational experiences of acceptance, connection, empowerment, and hope.
Couples
Therapy
Intimate relationships are laden with meaning due to people's basic need for connection and the ways in which society places primacy on romantic relationships. Individuals enter romantic relationships with conscious and unconscious needs, including the need for safety and security, love and connection. However, because people come into relationships with different histories of family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, they often struggle to meet their partner's needs in the way that the partner may desire. Often, couples end up repeating the same patterns because they desperately want to meet their own and their partner's needs but feel helpless to do so. I seek to help couples identify their core, basic relational needs, the ways in which these needs get expressed in the relationship, and how this expression sometimes gets in the way of truly meeting these needs. I also acknowledges how familial, cultural, and social messages influence the ways in which these needs are formed and expressed. My goal is to help each partner more fully understand themselves, each other, and their social contexts, so that they can strengthen their connection and meet their fundamental relational needs.