New to Grow
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Maybe you keep having the same frustrating conversations with your partner and nothing ever really gets resolved. Trust may have been broken, you may feel lonely even when you’re together, or you may be questioning whether your relationship can actually get better. Or perhaps you’ve survived an abusive or traumatic relationship and find that what happened still affects how safe you feel, how you trust, and how you see yourself. I’m an LMFT and LPC with over a decade of experience helping adults and couples navigate relationship difficulties, trauma and PTSD, domestic violence and abusive relationship dynamics, anxiety, grief, and major life transitions. I also specialize in women’s and reproductive mental health, including infertility and TTC, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and the transition to motherhood. My style is warm and compassionate, but I’m also an active therapist. I won’t simply listen and send you on your way. I’ll help you recognize patterns, understand what’s underneath them, and give you honest feedback and practical tools to help you create meaningful change.
You won’t spend your entire first session simply answering intake questions while I take notes. I want to understand what life feels like for you right now, what’s hurting, what’s no longer working, and what you want to change. We’ll begin identifying the patterns underneath what you’re experiencing, and I’ll offer feedback and direction from the start. My goal is for you to leave feeling genuinely heard and understood—and with a clearer sense of what we can work on together.
Clients often describe me as warm, accepting, direct, and easy to talk to. Creating a space where you feel safe and genuinely understood is very important to me, but I also believe therapy should offer more than a place to talk. I’m an active and engaged therapist who provides thoughtful feedback, asks meaningful questions, and helps clients recognize patterns that can be difficult to see from inside their own experiences. I balance compassion with honesty and believe that some of the most valuable moments in therapy happen when you feel supported enough to look at something from a different perspective. I also provide practical tools and strategies when appropriate, so our work can translate into meaningful changes outside of our sessions. Most importantly, I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. I tailor therapy to the individual or couple in front of me, their experiences, personality, relationships, goals, and what they need from therapy.
You may look like you’re holding everything together while privately feeling exhausted, hurt, anxious, or stuck. Maybe you’re having the same argument with your partner over and over, trying to rebuild trust after betrayal, healing from an abusive or traumatic relationship, or wondering why experiences from your past still affect you today. Or perhaps you’re navigating TTC, infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, postpartum, or motherhood and finding it much harder or lonelier than you expected. My ideal clients are adults and couples who want more than temporary relief—they want to understand the patterns keeping them stuck and create meaningful, lasting change.
Cash - $150 per session
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I approach trauma therapy with an understanding that difficult experiences can shape how you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to situations long after the experience has ended. Rather than asking “What’s wrong with you?” we’ll explore what happened to you, how you learned to survive it, and which of those patterns may no longer be serving you. Our work will move at a pace that feels manageable while helping you build greater safety, self-understanding, and confidence in yourself and your relationships.
I use compassion-focused approaches to help you understand and soften patterns of self-criticism, shame, and feeling like you’re never enough. Together, we’ll explore where these patterns came from and work toward developing a more supportive relationship with yourself—without ignoring accountability or the things you genuinely want to change. The goal is to help you respond to yourself with the same understanding and compassion you may find much easier to offer to others.
I use Emotionally Focused Therapy to help you understand the deeper emotions and attachment needs underneath recurring relationship patterns. Rather than focusing only on the argument itself, we’ll explore what’s happening beneath it—such as feeling unheard, rejected, disconnected, or unsafe—and work toward new ways of communicating and connecting. The goal is to help you create greater emotional safety, understanding, and closeness in your relationships.
I use CBT to help you recognize patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that may be keeping you feeling stuck. Together, we’ll explore how these patterns developed, identify what is and isn’t serving you, and practice more helpful ways of responding. I integrate CBT in a collaborative and practical way, while still making space for the deeper experiences and relationships that have shaped you
I use DBT skills to help you manage intense emotions, navigate difficult relationships, and respond to stressful situations in ways that feel more intentional and effective. Together, we may work on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness, with an emphasis on practical strategies you can use in everyday life.