LMFT, 18 years of experience
You deserve a life filled with ease, peace, passion, and joy. Please let me accompany you on a journey of personal growth where we harness your unique abilities to overcome challenges, enhance your personal and professional relationships, cultivate happily grounded self-assurance, and embrace your inner strengths. Together, we can identify what's not working and get you back to balance. We'll use a whole self approach, addressing the needs of your mind, body, and spirit. Whether you're dealing with overwhelm, relationship issues, or cycles of anxiety, depression, or addiction, I'm here to help. Will be your spirited, upbeat, and encouraging companion.
In our first session together, you can expect a warm, welcoming, and supportive space to openly share your concerns. We'll explore what's important to you, identify meaningful goals, and begin crafting a personalized path forward. Clients often describe leaving their initial session feeling deeply heard, genuinely understood, and hopeful about the journey ahead.
My strengths as a therapist lie in my ability to listen deeply, provide insightful guidance, and offer actionable strategies tailored to your specific needs. I specialize in helping clients effectively manage anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns, empowering them to cultivate lasting emotional resilience.
My ideal clients are insightful, motivated individuals committed to personal and professional growth. They often seek support during life transitions, relational challenges, or experiences of overwhelm, anxiety, depression, and/or addictions. Commonly, they share a desire to live authentically, improve their emotional intelligence, and cultivate deeper, more satisfying relationships.
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients recognize the patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that shape their daily lives. In practice, I guide clients to identify unhelpful beliefs, test them against reality, and develop healthier alternatives. Sessions often include practical tools such as thought records, behavior tracking, and skill-building exercises so that clients can apply what they learn outside of therapy. My approach is collaborative and goal-oriented, always adapted to the individual’s unique challenges and strengths.
I take an integrative approach, drawing from multiple therapeutic models to meet each client’s unique needs. Rather than relying on a single method, I combine evidence-based practices such as CBT, attachment-based work, and mindfulness with systemic and relational perspectives. This flexibility allows me to tailor therapy to the client’s goals, cultural context, and personal strengths, ensuring that our work together is both practical and deeply meaningful.
I approach therapy with a trauma-informed perspective, recognizing the impact that past adverse experiences can have on the mind, body, and relationships. My focus is on creating safety, building trust, and supporting clients in regaining a sense of control. I integrate evidence-based methods with a compassionate awareness of how trauma shapes nervous system responses, helping clients move from survival patterns toward healing, resilience, and empowerment.
I view therapy as a collaborative relationship where growth happens in the space between people. Using a relational approach, I focus on the dynamics that emerge both in clients’ lives and within the therapeutic relationship itself. By examining patterns of connection, communication, and conflict, clients gain insight into how they relate to others and develop new ways of building more authentic, balanced, and fulfilling relationships.
I use a strengths-based approach to highlight clients’ existing resources and capabilities rather than focusing only on problems. Together we identify personal values, past successes, and hidden capacities that can support resilience and change. This method helps clients build confidence, shift perspective, and use their own strengths as a foundation for growth in both personal and relational challenges.