I draw from multiple evidence-based approaches and adapt to what each person needs.
Session 1
We'll spend time getting to know each other. I'll ask what brought you in, a bit about your history, and what you're hoping to get out of therapy. You'll have space to ask questions too. There's no pressure to commit beyond that first appointment.
Sessions 2–3
We go deeper into your background: family history, significant relationships, and experiences that shaped you. This gives us a fuller picture of what we're working with and helps guide where to focus.
Ongoing
Sessions are 50 minutes, typically once a week. We'll talk, I'll ask questions, and over time patterns start to emerge. Progress can be slow and nonlinear, but most people notice something shifting within the first couple of months. There's no set endpoint. We check in regularly.
Some things don't respond to talking about them. If a memory still shows up in your body, your reactions, or your sleep, EMDR works on it directly. Childhood and complex trauma, hypervigilance, dissociation, and the triggers that seem to come from nowhere.
Explore: Trauma & EMDR
For what an experience left behind: hypervigilance, flashbacks, numbness, a nervous system that never fully stands down. Single-incident and complex trauma, childhood experiences, and PTSD — with EMDR available when talking alone isn't reaching it.
Explore: Trauma & PTSD
You hold space all day. Somewhere to set it down: burnout, compassion fatigue, imposter feelings, and the specific loneliness of being the one everyone else leans on.
Explore: Therapy for Therapists
The kind that looks like competence from the outside. Overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, panic, and the exhausting math of anticipating what everyone needs before they ask.
Explore: Anxiety
Some seasons are heavy, some are just far away. Low motivation, numbness, the voice that narrates everything you did wrong, and the effort it takes to seem fine.
Explore: Depression
Graduating, changing careers, ending a relationship, moving somewhere new. The in-between chapters, when the old map stops working and the new one hasn't been drawn.
Explore: Life Transitions
The patterns that keep repeating. Boundaries, attachment, dating burnout, family obligation, and learning how to be close to people without disappearing into them.
Explore: Relationships
Self-worth, belonging, cultural expectations, and the quiet question of who you are when nobody's watching or needing anything from you.
Explore: Identity & Self-Esteem
People, relationships, versions of yourself, futures you'd already imagined. Grief doesn't move on a schedule, and it doesn't need fixing. It needs a witness.
Explore: Grief & Loss
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