Licensed to practice in Colorado and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Couples Counseling, Men's Issues, Women's Issues and 4 more.
New to Grow
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado specializing in couples therapy, particularly couples caught in the pursue-withdraw cycle — one partner chasing the conversation, the other shutting down. I also work individually with men who go quiet during conflict. My approach is active and coaching-based: you'll practice new skills in session and bring real issues from your week so we can work them live. The goal is change you can actually feel, not just insight.
We start with an intake — I go through your history together as a couple, and I ask a lot of questions. From there, we do two individual sessions so I can understand each of your backgrounds separately. Then I run an assessment to identify your strengths and weaknesses as a couple. Once that's done, we move into the real work: coaching-heavy sessions where you practice new skills in real time — redos, timeouts, tools for the moments conflict actually happens. You'll bring topics from your week into session, and we'll work through them live, not just talk around them.
I work with the pursue-withdraw cycle specifically — the chasing partner and the partner who shuts down — and I treat it as a pattern to interrupt, not a personality flaw to fix. Sessions are hands-on: redos, timeouts, real-time coaching. You leave with tools you've actually used, not just talked about, and you keep bringing live issues into the room so the work stays real instead of theoretical.
My ideal client is high-functioning and, from the outside, doing fine — nobody around them would guess anything's wrong. But internally, they're struggling: more agitation, more shutdown, more anger or resentment than they know what to do with, and they don't have a name for what's happening or a way to work through it. In couples, it often shows up the same way — one or both partners shutting down or reaching anxiously, communication breaking apart, and an underlying loneliness even when they're together. They come to therapy wanting to actually understand what's going on underneath it, not just manage the symptoms.
I use the Gottman Method, which is built on skills the Gottmans researched and tested, not just theory. In session, it looks a lot like coaching — a lot of it is psychoeducation, where I teach a skill and then we practice it right there. I’ll interrupt in the moment, we take timeouts, we do redos. It functions almost like a classroom: you learn the skill, you try it, you get real-time feedback, and you leave with something you can actually use the next time conflict comes up.