About Skye
My practice emerged from my desire to support people in their personal growth or professional development.
It is common to know you’re not feeling your best, without being able to put your finger on what is causing your dis-ease. I want to know who you are, what your values are, and all the identities you hold that impact your movement through the world. You are the expert of your own life and determine the agenda, yet our space will be collaborative and we will work together to set meaningful therapy goals and a path for achieving them. I will help you tune into your internal experiences, find self-compassion, and identify new ways of responding that feel authentic to you.
My specialties include depression, chronic stress, anxiety, trauma, substance use disorders, supporting members of the LGBTQ+ community, therapy for mental health practitioners, and adjustment to/management of living with a chronic illness. I practice therapy with cultural humility and a trauma-informed, anti-racist approach. Through my practice and training, I have learned that we have experiences that we may not label “traumatic,” but that have the same effects on our bodies, thoughts, and physical sensations as those we more openly view as causing trauma. We each have different ways of identifying and communicating our experiences and part of my person-centered practice means I will attune to you and reflect your preferred verbiage.
My therapy style:
I earned my master’s degrees in social work and public health from Columbia University in 2015 and since then have provided psychotherapy to people living with HIV and other chronic illnesses, people directly and indirectly impacted by the criminal injustice system, and people receiving services through community mental health centers and in private psychotherapy practice. Having worked in and supported staff in nonprofits for a long time, I am keenly aware of the effects of burnout and compassion fatigue. I am a certified compassion fatigue professional and bring this training to my clinical and professional work with people in the field.
My theoretical orientation leans cognitive-behavioral, anti-oppressive and somatic. My clinical training includes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and anti-racist clinical practices. I tend to view the concerns that come through my doors from a trauma lens, bringing awareness to the myriad ways our past experiences impact our present-day functioning. All of our experiences are held in our bodies, with trauma and other stressors resonating beneath our awareness and affecting our current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Supervision and consultation:
I am passionate about supporting clinicians’ professional development and have supervised social workers, mental health counselors, clinical supervisors, and case managers in New York and Colorado since 2017. I have supported agencies in building internal policies and training staff to address crisis situations that integrate best clinical, ethical, and anti-racist/anti-oppressive practices.
In supervision and consultation, I utilize reflective supervision and an integrated developmental and theoretical model. We will explore your experience in the therapy space; we need to practice self-awareness to know when to set aside our internal experience or use it therapeutically. We will explore themes of clinician and patient safety and our own identities. You can expect that I will model limited self disclosure, immediacy, and use of CBT and somatic work in supervision and consultation sessions. I keep my clinical work separate from supervision and consultation, so if we see each other for one, I will provide a referral for the other.