Often rebooked
I am a compassionate, trauma-informed therapist supporting individuals navigating trauma, crisis, addiction, anxiety, life transitions, and unresolved conflict. I work with those who feel overlooked or misunderstood, including first responders, trauma survivors, individuals with complex PTSD, postpartum depression, or other mental health diagnoses. My approach is whole-person centered, exploring the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of your experience. Together, we’ll build resilience, deepen self-awareness, and work toward meaningful, lasting change.
Our first session is a space to get to know you and understand what brought you to therapy. We’ll discuss your current concerns, relevant history, review any necessary forms and complete a preliminary assessment and treatment plan. I’ll also review confidentiality and what to expect from therapy. If helpful, we may explore grounding or coping strategies. You’re always encouraged to ask questions—we’ll move at a pace that feels right for you.
Clients often appreciate my balance of directness and compassion. True healing in therapy comes from willingness to uncover layers, challenge unhealthy patterns and practice what we uncover in session, outside in the real world. I help you understand how past experiences—especially early relationships—shape current thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, we identify and shift patterns that contribute to anxiety, overwhelm, relationship challenges, or addictive cycles. Our work is collaborative, practical, and insight-driven, with a focus on building self-awareness, emotional regulation, and tools you can use in daily life.
I support individuals seeking deeper self-understanding, emotional clarity, and meaningful change. Many clients feel stuck in an endless loop, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves or their relationships. I help develop goals to reduce anxiety, trauma-responses, enhance and build coping skills and replace negative thoughts with healthier ones. I work best with individual clients who are open to reflection and curious about their inner world. Together, we’ll build positive ways of coping, relating, and moving forward.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a proven approach for healing from trauma and PTSD. I work with clients to gently explore how difficult experiences have shaped their thoughts and feelings about themselves, others, and the world. We explore negative “stuck points,” and build new ways of thinking, feelings and behaviors with compassion, and confidence. My approach is relatively structured but warm and supportive, helping you move through trauma at a pace that feels safe while making real, lasting progress.
Existential
In Existential therapy, I help explore life’s deeper questions, especially those that come up with grief and loss—identity, meaning, freedom, purpose, connection and mortality. We develop a space to reflect on what it means to live authentically, especially during times of anxiety, loss, transition, or uncertainty. Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, I support in understanding lived experiences, clarifying values, and making intentional choices that align with a life desired.
Gestalt
In Gestalt therapy, we focus on helping build greater awareness of thoughts, emotions, and experiences in the present moment. We explore what is happening in the “here and now” to better understand patterns, needs, and relational dynamics. We work collaboratively and experientially, supporting in reconnecting, strengthening authenticity, and creating meaningful change.
Narrative
In Narrative therapy, we start by providing a space for you to tell your story. Trauma and overwhelming life events can shape painful, limiting stories about identity, safety, and worth. In therapy, we work collaboratively to explore these experiences with care, identify resilience and survival strengths, and re-author (or re-write) your story that restores your sense of worth, hope, and meaning. We aim to remember you are NOT your problems.
Psychodynamic
I take a psychodynamic and relational approach to therapy, meaning I pay close attention and sometimes draw attention to the past and present relationships which shape our inner worlds. We explore recurring patterns, emotional struggles, and the deeper needs underneath them. I believe that through a trusting therapeutic relationship, folks gain clarity, work through unresolved pain, and move toward lasting growth and wholeness.