Internal Family Systems (IFS)

My approach to IFS-informed therapy, or parts work, helps clients understand the different sides of themselves with more clarity and compassion. Many of the women I work with have a part that keeps pushing, a part that people-pleases, a part that overthinks, a part that feels resentful, and a part that is simply exhausted. Rather than seeing these responses as flaws, I help clients understand them as protective patterns that developed for a reason. In our work together, we explore these different parts gently and without judgment. This can help you better understand why you keep repeating certain patterns, feel pulled in different directions, or struggle to respond to yourself in a more supportive way. Over time, parts work helps create more inner awareness, self-compassion, and choice. Instead of feeling run by old protective patterns, you can begin relating to yourself from a more grounded, calm, and connected place.

Somatic

My approach to somatic therapy is grounded, gentle, and trauma-informed. I help clients pay attention to how stress, emotion, and past experiences may be showing up in the body through tension, shutdown, overwhelm, numbness, restlessness, or chronic activation. Rather than staying only at the level of thoughts, somatic work helps us understand what your nervous system has been carrying and how your body may be responding to long-standing patterns of pressure, overfunctioning, people-pleasing, or emotional pain. In session, this may include building awareness of body sensations, identifying signs of activation or collapse, practicing grounding, slowing down emotional overwhelm, and learning how to support more regulation and safety in the body. My style is not rigid or overly intense. I use somatic work in a way that feels collaborative, practical, and paced to your capacity. For many clients, this becomes an important part of healing because insight alone is not always enough when the body has been living in stress for a long time.

Relational

My relational approach focuses on helping clients understand the patterns they repeat in connection with others and the deeper needs, wounds, and protective strategies underneath those patterns. Many of the women I work with are used to being the strong one in relationships. They may over-give, over-function, avoid conflict, struggle to ask for what they need, feel resentment, or feel emotionally lonely even in close relationships. Relational therapy helps us look at how your early experiences, attachment patterns, and current relationships may be shaping the way you relate today. Together, we explore patterns around boundaries, communication, emotional responsibility, conflict, reciprocity, and self-abandonment. My goal is to help you build more honest, connected, and mutual relationships, while also strengthening your relationship with yourself. This work is especially helpful for clients who want to stop repeating exhausting dynamics and begin relating from a place of greater clarity, self-trust, and emotional balance.

Compassion Focused

My approach to compassion-focused therapy helps clients relate to themselves with more understanding, gentleness, and emotional safety. Many of the women I work with are highly self-critical and used to pushing through, holding it all together, and expecting more from themselves no matter how depleted they feel. Over time, that inner pressure can fuel burnout, perfectionism, shame, people-pleasing, and difficulty resting or receiving support. In our work together, compassion-focused therapy helps soften the harsh inner voice and build a more supportive relationship with yourself. This does not mean lowering your standards or avoiding responsibility. It means learning how to meet yourself with greater kindness, honesty, and care so change can happen from a place of support rather than self-attack. For many clients, this becomes an important part of healing because lasting growth is often harder when your inner world is driven by criticism, fear, or pressure.