My Practice

Therapy with me is collaborative, warm, and grounded in a genuine curiosity about who you are. I bring humor when it fits and create space for you to show up authentically - not as someone who needs to be fixed, but as someone navigating real challenges anchored in your life’s context . My goal is to help you feel understood while building insight into the patterns that might be holding you back.

My approach draws from multiple modalities but is fundamentally anchored in the belief that the change we are looking for is possible when we understand the root of what is happening. This might be addressing underlying and abstract feelings of shame that manifest in disordered eating or reframing behavioral challenges in youth as their attempt at communicating an unmet need. By addressing the underlying causes of whatever it is bringing you to therapy my hope is that we can heal core wounds rather than treating symptomatic behaviors.

Some of the specific modalities I work with are:

• Relational Psychodynamic Therapy - Understanding how early experiences shape who you are today while using what happens between us in the therapy room to illuminate patterns that show up in other relationships

• Attachment Theory - Exploring how your attachment patterns influence your relationships and sense of security

• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) - Helping you access, understand, and transform difficult emotions

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Working with the different parts of yourself and understanding how they developed to protect you

• Somatic Awareness - Recognizing that your body holds important information and insights about your emotional experience

Some common challenges I work with:

• Relationship patterns

• Life transitions

• Achievement pressure and burnout

• Anxiety and or depression

• Identity exploration including gender and sexuality

• Youth behavioral challenges

• Eating disorders & negative body image

• Shame and self-criticism

• Divorce and blending families