Many paths toward healing.
One person at a time.
No two people arrive at therapy with the same history, experiences, strengths, or hopes. And no single therapeutic approach can address every dimension of being human.
I begin with curiosity and careful listening. Together, we explore what's happening in your life, what may be contributing to your difficulties, and what kind of support or change would be most meaningful to you.
Our work might involve understanding longstanding patterns, processing painful experiences, developing new skills, navigating difficult decisions, or finding greater acceptance of yourself and your circumstances. Often, it involves several of these.
The Tools I Draw From
Rigorously trained. Thoughtfully applied.
I draw from several therapeutic approaches, each offering different ways to understand experiences, process emotions, develop skills, and support change. The methods we use depend on your needs, goals, and what we discover together.
Somatic Awareness
Our bodies can provide valuable information about stress, emotions, and patterns of responding. Through gentle attention to sensations, breathing, movement, and nervous system responses, we can explore experiences that may be difficult to access through words alone.
Parts Work
We all contain multitudes — parts that protect us, parts that carry old pain, parts that want things we're afraid to admit. Parts work invites us to meet these different aspects of ourselves with curiosity, understand what they need, and explore new ways of relating to them. All parts are welcome here.
Breathwork & Mindfulness
Breathing and mindfulness practices can support emotional awareness, grounding, and regulation. Depending on your needs and comfort, we may use gentle breathing exercises, guided attention, or more experiential practices to explore and respond to what you're feeling.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based approach to treating trauma and distressing experiences. It can help people process memories, emotions, and beliefs that continue to affect their lives, even when they understand intellectually that the past is over.
Attachment & Relational Patterns
Our early and ongoing relationships can influence how we experience closeness, trust, conflict, and emotional safety. We explore these patterns to better understand how they developed and how you might create more satisfying relationships with yourself and others.
Psychoeducation & Practical Skills
Understanding psychological processes can reduce confusion and help us make informed choices. We may explore cognitive distortions, emotional regulation, communication, boundaries, conflict resolution, relationship repair, and other skills that support meaningful changes in everyday life.
You are more than what has happened to you, more than the patterns you've learned, and more than the difficulties you face today.
My role is not to impose my beliefs or worldview, but to approach yours with curiosity, humility, and respect. Together, we can explore what you believe, what matters to you, and what feels meaningful and true in your own experience.
Your experiences. Your values. Your perspective.
I welcome people of diverse racial, cultural, religious, spiritual, and secular backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ individuals and people in consensually nonmonogamous relationships. I recognize that our identities, relationships, communities, and cultural experiences shape how we understand ourselves and the world.
I also welcome exploration of spirituality, personal beliefs, and experiences that may fall outside conventional frameworks of understanding, including psychedelic experiences.
There are moments in therapy when the most helpful thing is to pause, make room for difficult emotions, and understand an experience more deeply.
There are other moments when we need to practice something new: expressing a need, setting a boundary, regulating an emotion, having a difficult conversation, or making a decision we've been avoiding.
Therapy can involve both acceptance and change. Together, we explore what needs attention, what needs healing, what can be practiced, and what might be possible.
Sometimes we slow down. Sometimes we move forward.
The whole person, in context.
Our emotional lives are shaped by more than our thoughts and feelings. Relationships, physical health, sleep, movement, work, financial circumstances, identity, community, and the environments we live in can all influence our well-being.
I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to therapy, informed by my background in clinical psychology, massage therapy, yoga, and mind-body practices.
We consider these dimensions when relevant, without assuming that every difficulty can—or should—be addressed through lifestyle changes.
A relationship where you can be fully yourself.
The therapeutic relationship is more than a setting in which techniques are applied. It can also be a place to experience being heard, understood, challenged respectfully, and met with care.
You are welcome to bring uncertainty, difficult emotions, conflicting feelings, and parts of yourself you may not have felt comfortable expressing elsewhere.
You can also disagree with me, question an approach, and tell me when something isn't helping. Your voice matters in shaping our work together.
The goal is not to arrive somewhere perfect. It's to develop the capacity to be with yourself — fully, honestly, without looking away. To understand your experiences with greater compassion, recognize your strengths, and discover new possibilities for how you live and relate to others.
Steadiness isn't the absence of difficult experiences. It's the growing capacity to meet them with awareness, care, and confidence.