(he/him)
New to Grow
Therapy, to me, is about real human connection—about creating a space where you can show up fully, without judgment or pressure to be anything other than who you are right now. I see therapy as a collaborative process of curiosity, growth, and healing, where we work together to understand the patterns that shape your life and uncover what’s possible beyond them. My goal is to make every session a space where you feel deeply seen, understood, and supported. Whether you’re navigating personal transitions, relationships, trauma, or simply trying to reconnect with yourself, I’m here to help you explore your experiences in ways that feel authentic, compassionate, and empowering. I work with individuals, couples, families, and teens from all walks of life, and I’m especially passionate about fostering a safe, inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds, identities, and stories.
Our sessions are conversational, collaborative, and designed to meet your goals. I bring curiosity, humor, and empathy into my work because I believe healing doesn’t always have to feel heavy. We’ll talk, reflect, and sometimes laugh, but always with intention, to help you move toward clarity, confidence, and a sense of peace in your life. With over a decade of teaching and public speaking experience, I also bring an educational lens to therapy. That means you won’t just explore what you’re feeling, you’ll also understand why. My hope is that you leave each session not only feeling supported but also equipped with insight and tools you can use in your everyday life. Clients often describe me as: Direct: Honest and transparent, but always kind. Warm: Empathetic and deeply invested in your wellbeing. Humorous: Bringing lightness when it’s needed most.
My greatest strength is helping clients feel understood while still challenging them in a way that leads to real growth. I try to make therapy feel human, honest, and practical, not cold or overly clinical. I use humor, stories, metaphors, and real-life examples to help clients understand their patterns without feeling judged or overwhelmed. My approach blends warmth with directness. I help clients connect the dots between their thoughts, emotions, relationships, family history, and current behaviors. Whether I’m working with individuals or couples, I focus on helping people slow down the pattern, understand what is happening underneath it, and build tools they can actually use outside of session. Clients often tell me they appreciate that I am relatable, engaged, and able to explain complex emotional issues in a way that makes sense. My goal is to create a space where clients feel safe enough to be honest, but also supported enough to make meaningful change.
My style: No two people carry the same story, and that’s what makes therapy such a deeply personal and collaborative process. My approach begins with truly getting to know you—your history, your relationships, your patterns of thought, and the way you make sense of the world. I believe that therapy isn’t about “fixing" people; it’s about understanding them. It’s about uncovering how your past experiences, family systems, and inner narratives influence how you move through the present, and then helping you build new ways forward that feel both empowering and authentic. I work from an integrative and flexible foundation, drawing from multiple evidence-based approaches, including Client-Centered, Multicultural, Integrative, Adlerian, Feminist, Sports, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). What this means in practice is that I adapt my methods to your needs—sometimes we explore thoughts and emotions, sometimes we focus on behavior and communication, and sometimes we simply sit with what’s present. In my work with couples and families, I often blend Structural Family Therapy, Family Systems Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Generational frameworks to help repair trust, enhance connection, and deepen understanding between partners and loved ones. Relationships can be complex, and therapy becomes a space to slow down, make sense of reactions, and rediscover what it means to feel emotionally safe with one another. Healing involves not just insight, but embodiment; not just awareness, but action. I also recognize that identity, our culture, gender, race, upbringing, and spirituality, profoundly shapes how we experience the world and ourselves. Ultimately, my goal is to help you build a life that feels congruent with who you truly are, to strengthen your resilience, deepen your emotional awareness, and create lasting change that extends beyond our sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
use CBT often in my practice because it gives clients practical tools they can actually use outside of session. A lot of people come to therapy feeling stuck in the same thoughts, emotions, or patterns, and CBT helps us slow those moments down and understand what is really happening. In session, I help clients identify the connection between their thoughts, emotions, body reactions, and behaviors. From there, we work on challenging unhelpful thinking patterns, building healthier coping skills, and creating realistic action steps that fit their life. I do not use CBT in a rigid or “worksheet-only” way. I try to make it feel natural, collaborative, and personal to what the client is going through. I often use CBT for anxiety, depression, stress, relationship concerns, self-esteem, life transitions, and emotional regulation. My goal is to help clients better understand their patterns, feel more in control of their responses, and develop tools that help them make meaningful changes in their day-to-day life.
Attachment-based
I use attachment-based therapy to help clients better understand how their past relationships, family experiences, and early emotional patterns may be showing up in their current relationships. A lot of people come to therapy feeling confused about why they shut down, get anxious, overthink, people-please, avoid conflict, or feel unsafe being vulnerable. Attachment work helps us connect those patterns to the deeper need underneath them: wanting to feel seen, safe, valued, and secure. In my practice, I use attachment-based therapy in a very human and conversational way. I help clients notice their relationship patterns without shame, understand where those patterns came from, and learn healthier ways to communicate their needs, set boundaries, and build trust. I often use humor, stories, and real-life examples to make the work feel less heavy and easier to understand. Sometimes a story or metaphor helps something “click” faster than clinical language alone. I also use narration in session, meaning I help clients slow down and put words to what is happening emotionally in the moment. For example, we may look at the story their nervous system is telling them, the role they fall into during conflict, or the way old experiences are shaping current reactions. My goal is to help clients create more secure relationships with others and with themselves, while still keeping the process honest, grounded, and relatable.
Couples Counseling
I approach couples therapy as helping both partners understand the cycle they keep getting stuck in, rather than making one person the “problem.” Most couples come in because they are having the same argument in different versions: one person shuts down, one person pushes harder, one person feels unheard, one person feels criticized, and both people end up feeling alone in the relationship. In my practice, I help couples slow the pattern down and look at what is happening underneath the conflict. We work on communication, emotional safety, trust, intimacy, boundaries, repair after hurt, and learning how to disagree without destroying the connection. I also pay attention to attachment styles, family backgrounds, trauma history, cultural expectations, and the roles each partner learned to play before they ever entered the relationship. I use humor, stories, and real-life examples because couples therapy can get heavy fast. Sometimes humor helps people lower their defenses enough to actually hear each other. I also use narration in session, meaning I help put words to the emotional pattern happening in real time. For example, I may help a couple notice, “This is the moment where one of you starts reaching for connection, and the other starts protecting themselves by shutting down.” My goal is not to force couples to stay together or tell them what to do. My goal is to help them understand their relationship honestly, communicate more clearly, repair more effectively, and decide what a healthier version of the relationship needs to look like moving forward.