Dr Anderson has over 20 years of experience helping people use their emotions as guides to their inner truth. She has a pragmatic clinical style, focused on noticing and understanding patterns of cognition and emotional reactions and understanding their origins in order to make more effective choices. She use a variety of elements from cognitive and behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, solution focused therapy, Internal Family Systems therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectic Behavior Therapy and mindfulness meditation. She uses an empathetic and empowering approach and favors interventions that focus on deepening self-compassion, increasing self-awareness and improving relationships with self and others. She helps clients learn to focus on their emotions, understanding what and why they are and how to manage them. She helps clients discover the wisdom held in emotions, seeing them as guides to the underlying issues causing them distress in their lives. Together, she works with clients to find effective strategies for change. She also draws attention to the messages the body gives and encourages physical self-care through balancing sleep, diet and exercise. She believes that we all hold the power to heal our psychological wounds by mindfully attending to them in relationship, bringing them to awareness. She works collaboratively with a number of area psychiatrists when medication appears to be a necessary addition to the work of therapy.