“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings and begin to extrapolate from them, examine them for new ways of understanding our experiences. This is how new visions begin, how we begin to posit a new future nourished by the past.”
-Audre Lorde
If you resonate with Audre Lorde’s words above, welcome. We may be a good fit for each other.
That said, you don’t need to trust your emotions easily or believe they hold all the answers to work with me. You might feel confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed by them, or afraid of what might happen if you let yourself feel them fully. That all makes sense, and you are welcome here too.
Maybe you’ve been told—explicitly or implicitly—that your feelings are too much, too messy, too intense or “irrational” to take seriously. That you’re being too sensitive. Maybe you’ve reacted from emotions in ways you later regretted and it’s left you wary of your feelings altogether.
But what if your feelings hold some truth, purpose, or message? What if they’re just trying to be seen and known in the ways they know how? And what if I told you it’s possible to feel them without drowning in them and even find relief and clarity on the other side?
I believe in treating your emotions as well-intentioned messengers—signals from the parts of you that have something to say, something to show you. Together, we can slow down and really listen. We’ll get to know and be in conversation with your feelings. When we approach them with curiosity and warmth, rather than silencing them or letting them speak for us without our knowing, we can begin to move out of stuckness and towards a deeper sense of truth, agency, and freedom.
This process has brought me profound relief, self-compassion, connection, and clarity as a client of therapy myself. It is a deep honor to support my clients in experiencing these things too.