My Approach

I see therapy as a unique kind of relationship, one that can create the conditions for insight, healing, and lasting change.

Often, the struggles that bring us to therapy are not signs that something is wrong with us. More often, they reflect how hard the mind and body have worked to help us survive pain, loss, overwhelm, or disconnection. The very ways we learned to cope, protect, and endure may once have been necessary. Over time, though, those same patterns can begin to feel constricting, exhausting, or lonely.

My approach is grounded in AEDP and informed by relational and psychodynamic therapy. I pay close attention to the emotional life beneath symptoms, to the ways early relationships continue to shape the present, and to what unfolds between us in the room. I believe healing happens not only through insight, but through new emotional experience: being met with care where there has been shame, with understanding where there has been confusion, and with companionship where there has been aloneness.

Therapy with me is collaborative, depth-oriented, and paced with care. I want it to feel like a place where all parts of you are welcome, including the ones that have felt hidden, burdened, uncertain, or hard to reach.

What This Means In Practice

• understand patterns that have shaped how you relate to yourself and others
• notice and make sense of emotional experience that may once have felt overwhelming or out of reach
• explore protective strategies with compassion rather than judgment
• deepen self-understanding and self-compassion
• process grief, trauma, or relational pain more fully
• move toward greater clarity, connection, vitality, and authenticity

My hope is that therapy becomes more than a place to talk about what hurts. I hope it becomes a place where something true begins to shift, gently and meaningfully, from the inside out.