Who This Work Is For

I work primarily with emotionally complex adults who are ready for deeper therapeutic work.

Many of my clients are thoughtful, insightful, and highly capable. They're often professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs, therapists, physicians, or people who carry significant responsibility for others while quietly struggling themselves.

I have a particular interest in working with:

• Highly sensitive adults

• Trauma and complex developmental trauma

• Bipolar disorder and mood disorders

• Emotional intensity

• Identity and self-understanding

• Perfectionism and burnout

• Therapists and helping professionals

• Relationship and attachment patterns

• PMDD and other hormone-related issues

• Chronic illness

Whether you've been in therapy before or this is your first experience, my hope is that you'll find a safe space where every part of you is accepted and welcome.

My Approach

Our work together will be collaborative and paced according to your capacity. Some sessions may involve exploring your past, while others may focus on what is happening in the present moment, including your emotions, relationships, or the sensations arising in your body. At times, I may gently challenge long-held beliefs or patterns that no longer serve you. At other times, the most important work is simply creating enough safety for difficult emotions to be experienced rather than avoided.

What I look out for in sessions includes recurring themes, relationship dynamics, emotions that arise in session, body language and breathing changes, protective patterns, and what is unsaid beneath the words you say.

My hope is that therapy becomes a space where you feel deeply understood without feeling judged, where every part of you is met with curiosity rather than criticism, and where you gradually develop a more compassionate, authentic, and trusting relationship with yourself.

My work integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with Somatic Experiencing®, Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed skills, attachment theory, and nervous system-based approaches. Rather than applying one model to everyone, I tailor therapy to the individual sitting in front of me. I use psychodynamic theory to understand your patterns and the themes in your life. I use Somatic Experiencing® to assess your nervous system states and help increase your capacity. I like to incorporate DBT-related skills to give practical tools while you navigate mood and anxiety issues.

In sessions with me, I'll probably notice patterns you haven't yet seen, but I'm never interested in imposing meaning. My role is to help you discover your own. By the end of your time with me, I hope you leave with more trust in yourself, self-awareness and embodiment of that awareness, greater understanding of your patterns, and an increased capacity to feel joy, love, and excitement.

If this way of thinking about therapy resonates with you, I'd be honored to walk alongside you in your journey.