Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I have extensive experience using this treatment method across a wide range of clinical presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma-related concerns, relational distress, and life transitions. In my practice, I use this approach in a structured yet flexible way, tailoring interventions to each client’s goals, strengths, and readiness for change. I emphasize collaboration and transparency, helping clients understand not only what we are doing in therapy, but why we are doing it. This method is integrated into assessment, treatment planning, and ongoing sessions, and is often combined with complementary evidence-based approaches to ensure care is responsive, practical, and grounded in real-world application. My focus is on helping clients build insight, emotional regulation skills, and sustainable coping strategies that translate beyond the therapy room. I consistently adapt the method to fit the client’s cultural context, values, and lived experience, with the goal of supporting meaningful, lasting change rather than short-term symptom relief alone.

Eclectic

I practice from an eclectic framework, drawing intentionally from multiple evidence-based modalities to meet each client’s unique needs, goals, and lived experience. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model, I integrate approaches such as CBT, mindfulness-based strategies, attachment-informed work, emotion regulation skills, and relational interventions based on what is most clinically appropriate and effective for the individual or system in front of me. In my practice, an eclectic approach allows therapy to remain responsive and client-centered. I collaborate closely with clients to identify what is working, what is not, and how interventions can be adjusted over time. This flexibility is especially helpful when working with complex presentations, co-occurring concerns, relational distress, or clients who have not felt fully supported by a single modality in the past. I emphasize clarity, intentionality, and practical application—helping clients understand why specific strategies are being used and how they connect to their goals. All interventions are grounded in evidence-based practice and adapted to the client’s cultural context, values, strengths, and readiness for change. My goal is to support meaningful insight, emotional regulation, and sustainable growth that clients can carry into their daily lives beyond the therapy space.

Compassion Focused

I have extensive experience integrating compassion-focused principles into my work with clients who struggle with shame, self-criticism, perfectionism, trauma-related concerns, depression, anxiety, and relational distress. Many of the individuals and couples I work with have developed strong inner critics or survival-based coping strategies that were once protective but now interfere with emotional well-being, self-worth, and connection with others. In my practice, Compassion-Focused work helps clients develop a kinder, more supportive relationship with themselves while still maintaining accountability and forward movement. I help clients understand how their nervous system, threat responses, and learned patterns contribute to emotional pain, and we work together to cultivate self-soothing, emotional regulation, and compassionate self-talk as practical skills rather than abstract concepts. I use compassion-focused strategies in a structured, intentional way—often alongside cognitive, mindfulness-based, and attachment-informed interventions—to help clients respond to difficult emotions with curiosity and balance instead of avoidance or harsh self-judgment. This approach is especially effective for clients who feel “stuck,” chronically overwhelmed, or disconnected from their own needs. Throughout treatment, I emphasize collaboration, clarity, and real-world application. Compassion-focused work is adapted to each client’s cultural context, values, and readiness for change, with the goal of supporting emotional safety, resilience, and sustainable growth that extends beyond the therapy room.

Couples Counseling

I have extensive experience providing couples counseling across a wide range of relational concerns, including communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, trust and infidelity issues, intimacy challenges, conflict escalation, life transitions, and stress related to parenting, grief, or external pressures. I work with couples at many stages—those seeking repair and reconnection, those navigating major decisions, and those wanting to strengthen an already committed relationship. In my practice, couples counseling is structured, intentional, and collaborative. I focus on helping partners understand the patterns they are caught in rather than positioning either person as “the problem.” Together, we identify cycles of interaction, underlying emotional needs, attachment dynamics, and learned coping strategies that may be driving conflict or distance. This creates a shared framework that supports empathy, accountability, and meaningful change. I integrate evidence-based approaches such as attachment-informed work, communication and emotion-regulation skills, cognitive and behavioral strategies, and compassion-focused interventions. Sessions are active and goal-oriented, with a strong emphasis on practical tools that couples can apply between sessions to improve connection, reduce reactivity, and repair ruptures more effectively. Throughout the process, I prioritize transparency and collaboration—helping couples understand not only what we are working on, but why it matters and how it supports their shared goals. My approach is adapted to each couple’s cultural context, values, strengths, and readiness for change, with the goal of fostering emotional safety, mutual understanding, and sustainable relational growth that extends beyond the therapy space.

Culturally Sensitive Therapy

I have extensive experience providing culturally sensitive therapy and intentionally integrating cultural awareness, humility, and responsiveness into all aspects of my clinical work. I recognize that culture—including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, family systems, spirituality, socioeconomic background, immigration experiences, and community context—shapes how individuals understand themselves, experience distress, seek help, and define healing. In my practice, culturally sensitive therapy begins with collaboration and curiosity rather than assumptions. I actively invite clients to share how their identities, values, and lived experiences influence their concerns and goals. I remain attentive to the impact of systemic factors such as discrimination, marginalization, intergenerational trauma, and power dynamics, and I work to ensure these realities are acknowledged and addressed within the therapeutic process. I adapt evidence-based interventions to fit each client’s cultural context rather than expecting clients to fit a predetermined model. This includes adjusting language, pacing, communication style, and therapeutic strategies to align with the client’s worldview, strengths, and preferences. Cultural considerations are integrated into assessment, treatment planning, and ongoing sessions, not treated as an afterthought. Throughout treatment, I emphasize transparency, respect, and shared decision-making. My goal is to create a therapy space that feels emotionally safe, affirming, and empowering—where clients feel seen in their full identity and supported in pursuing meaningful, sustainable change that honors both their personal goals and cultural values.