My philosophy when it comes to counseling is grounded in the belief that understanding personal experiences, relationships, and societal and systemic issues barriers is essential for healing and growth. As a developing counseling student currently in the Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling track at Western Kentucky University, I, of course, want to be prepared to work with this demographic. However, my practice also strongly embraces individual therapy, recognizing the unique journey of each person.

A growing interest actively shapes my perspective, but still an underdeveloped understanding, of multiple frameworks that I hope to learn more about even beyond my graduation:

• Addiction Informed Counseling

• Adlerian Therapy

• Existential Therapy

• Feminist Therapy

• Frantz Fanon and Decolonial Psychology/Counseling

• Gabor Mate and Compassionate Inquiry

• Internal Family Systems

• Marxist Psychology

• Polyvagal Theory

• Psychoanalytic Therapy

• Trauma-Informed Counseling

• Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy

This philosophy is very much in development. My training at WKU and ongoing experiences are actively refining my integration of these approaches. I am committed to learning how to effectively integrate these perspectives, valuing relationships, individual experiences, systemic understanding, trauma sensitivity, and critical analysis of power to support my clients' journeys toward authenticity, genuine connection, and liberation.