Here’s what I believe: what started as excellent adaptations to childhood circumstances are often still operating in our lives as adults. Through that lens, our behaviors make sense! By sitting with our feelings and noticing what comes up in a warm and supportive environment, we reveal the implicit lessons learned in our early days, and life begins to shift. My main goal is to witness, empower, and support you in your work. Great… so, what’s that look like? 

The process of therapy is a unique journey for each client but does follow an overarching path. Our first few sessions involve learning about what brings you to therapy, what you want for your life, what your strengths are, and what internal resources you have on hand. We’ll be building a relationship as we go, because that is the container in which all of the work takes place. If you don’t feel safe, seen, or met, we will work together to find what’s holding us back, or I’ll help you find someone with whom there is a better ‘click.’ As we assess progress, we might discover that we need to slow down and give your nervous system time to acclimate to this space as safe. 

Early in our time together, we’ll work through a general-to-specific set of questions about your past. Then, with the understanding that many roads will take us in the same direction, we’ll start with the experiences that have impacted you in the last week or with whatever is top-of-mind for you that day. Together, we’ll seek to identify the roots of childhood learning that you are applying to adult problems today (as we all have done), we’ll develop a more realistic picture of your parents and yourself, and we’ll add to our understanding of your unique strengths and potentials as they can come to bear on the issues that brought you to therapy in the first place. 

I intend to be transparent about what I’m seeing and how I think we might go forward. My hope is to always seek consent for the direction we go.

My services are welcoming for all sexual orientations and identities, people of color, immigrants, people of all abilities, religious minorities, and people of all sizes. I have experience working with coming-of-age topics, anxiety and depression, shame, childhood trauma, intimacy, LGBTQ+ concerns, and change in general.

If it turns out that your needs are outside the scope of my competency, or that my approaches do not resonate well with your system, I will make referrals to other professionals for you. You may seek a second opinion from another therapist or may terminate therapy at any time.