Skylar employs a psychoanalytic lens in her work with her clients (including children). In her work with adults, she believes that to understand who you are and how you make sense of your lived experiences, it is essential to look into the past. While it can be a daunting task, and deeply uncomfortable at times, it can also be empowering and healing as it is explored together safely, respecting your level of readiness. She observes the relationships people have (with themselves and others), drawing on the relationship she builds with you in therapy to facilitate change in the ways you relate with yourself and others. In sessions, Skylar places importance in facilitating understanding of things unspoken, unconscious desires, and dreamwork. She helps individuals create a capacity for figuring things out together, tolerating uncertainties, eventually arriving at their own decisions and choices.

Her work with children embodies openness and curiosity, allowing for freedom of expression through play and expressive arts, alongside talk therapy where suitable. Together with her understanding of child development through the psychoanalytic lens, she utilizes her extensive experiences in working and communicating with children (and their parents) in a child-led, respectful manner, while enforcing boundaries and limits. Skylar actively advocates for children and young people, in her efforts to bridge understanding between children and adults. Her experience working in a school setting has given her exposure to working with children from diverse backgrounds including blended families, recent loss of family members, impacts of divorce and family separation, volatile home conditions, single parenting, adoption, minor on minor abuse, substance use, children's mental health issues and symptoms, and navigating life transitions (friendships, relocation).

Areas of interest and experience working with adults include issues such as attachment, loss (death and non-death losses), grief, suicidality, self-harm, living with mental illness, identity (personal, sexual, including LGBTQ), trauma and abuse (past and recent) , adverse childhood experiences, substance use, relationships (familial, romantic), major life transitions (career change, living arrangements, re-entering employment).

The human experience is complex, and part of growth and recovery is messy and uncomfortable, often requiring a great deal of courage and fortitude. Life can be difficult, yet there is power in reaching out, seeking help in a space dedicated just for you. She looks forward to sitting together with you in hard places, collaboratively creating a space to figure things out, eventually witnessing your growth and resilience.

In sessions with Skylar, you may expect gentleness, honesty, compassionate confrontation, patience, kindness, warmth, respect, and above all, to be treated a a person deserving of care and safety within the therapeutic relationship. To build and nurture this space of care and safety, she facilitates ongoing discussions on boundaries and expectations in sessions.

For effective therapy to occur, clients are encouraged to commit to a set time and day for their therapy sessions.

Skylar strongly recommends a commitment of ONE session a week (at minimum) in line with effective psychoanalytic treatment.
This arrangement of predictability and commitment is a crucial element in building and nurturing safety and facilitating potential growth and wellness. This applies to both child and adult clients.

However, any reservations and or clarifications can be discussed upon the first meeting. Alternate arrangements can also be discussed.