Rachel Berry

The foundational goal of our work is to help you understand yourself better. We will explore your internal world of emotions, body sensations, and thoughts, as well as your interpersonal world of relationships, identities, and culture, with compassion and curiosity. Your patterns - internal and external - are often rooted in your past. Emotions signal your unmet needs, and your symptoms are ways you’ve adapted to cope with painful emotions. Whether you’ve learned to bury your emotions, or whether they are so intense you feel overwhelmed by them, we will uncover the ‘why’ behind them to help you get your needs met. Therapy is not just talking about; it is having new experiences of yourself in a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship. I will frequently check in with you about our therapy relationship, and we will use here-and-now emotional and relational experiences to help increase self-compassion and promote healing. Systemic factors such as power dynamics, identity, and marginalization impact how we see the world as well as how we are seen by the world. My therapy is influenced by intersectional, feminist, and multicultural perspectives.