Licensed to practice in Michigan and accepts 12 insurances. Specializes in ADHD, Anxiety, Depression and 10 more.
(she/her)
"Why do I keep choosing relationships like this?” “Why do I feel this way?” “Who am I underneath all of this?” “How did I become this person?” **“Why do I keep ending up here?”** If these are the kinds of questions you find yourself asking, we’ll probably have a lot to talk about. My approach to therapy is insight-oriented, relational, and deeply curious. I’m interested in more than helping you feel better in the moment. I want to help you understand why you feel the way you do, where your patterns came from, and why certain relationships, roles, fears, or beliefs keep following you. In therapy, we’ll absolutely talk about what’s happening in your life right now: the relationship that's on fire, the resentment you feel guilty for having, the anxiety that won’t stop, the people you keep trying to please, the decisions that aren’t working for you, or the version of yourself you’re exhausted from maintaining. But we’ll also get curious about what’s underneath it. We might notice the role you learned to play in your family, the kinds of people you feel responsible for, what happens when someone is disappointed in you, why conflict feels so threatening, why you struggle to ask for what you need, or why a relationship can feel impossible to let go of even when you know it isn’t good for you.
Our first session is not an interrogation, and you do not need to show up with your entire life perfectly explained and emotionally processed beforehand. We’ll start with what’s bringing you in right now — anxiety, overwhelm, relationship conflict, emotional exhaustion, life transitions, or maybe just the growing realization that your current coping mechanisms are… not exactly thriving. My approach to therapy is depth-oriented, which means we’re not just focusing on surface-level symptom management or trying to turn you into a hyper-optimized self-care robot. We’re looking at the deeper patterns underneath your emotions, relationships, reactions, and inner world. Over time, we’ll begin connecting the dots between past experiences, attachment patterns, current struggles, and the ways you’ve learned to move through the world with curiosity, honesty, (a bit of) humor, and zero judgment. You do not need to perform wellness here. You just need to show up as yourself.
One of my biggest strengths as a therapist is my focus on depth and long-term growth. I’m not especially interested in giving you a few worksheets, telling you to drink more water, and sending you back into the trenches of your life pretending we solved the problem. I help clients understand themselves on a deeper level — the patterns, defenses, relationship dynamics, emotional wounds, and survival strategies that developed for a reason but may not be serving them anymore. I also think therapy works best when it feels like a real relationship built on trust, honesty, consistency, and genuine connection. Many of my clients stay in therapy with me long-term because once you finally have a space where you don’t have to over-explain yourself, emotionally perform, or hold everything together all the time… it’s hard to go back. My goal is not to turn you into a perfectly optimized human. It’s to help you feel more understood, more connected to yourself, and more emotionally free.
My ideal client is someone who keeps finding themselves asking, “Why do I keep doing this when I know it doesn't help me?” You may be struggling with anxiety, relationships, people-pleasing, resentment, burnout. You’re probably pretty self-aware already...but insight hasn’t necessarily translated into change. You want more than coping skills. You want to understand where your patterns came from, why they keep showing up, and who you might be without them.
I use psychodynamic therapy to help you understand the patterns underneath what’s happening in your life now. We’ll look at how past relationships, family roles, and earlier experiences may still be shaping the way you see yourself, respond to conflict, choose relationships, or relate to other people. The goal isn’t to stay stuck in the past. It’s to understand yourself well enough that your patterns feel less automatic and you have more choice in what you do next.
Interpersonal therapy helps us look at how your relationships are affecting the way you feel and function day to day. We might explore conflict, changing roles, grief, loneliness, or patterns in the way you connect with other people. The goal is to better understand what’s happening between you and the people in your life, and how those dynamics may be contributing to stress, anxiety, depression. I really enjoy helping women get to a place where relationships feel safe and fulfilling.