New to Grow
My name is Nailin and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and PhD candidate in Couple and Family Therapy. I specialize in helping individuals and couples navigate complex relationship dynamics, including domestic violence, high conflict, parenting stress, and intergenerational patterns in their families of origin. My style is warm, direct, and collaborative. I aim to co-create a space where you feel brave, understood, and gently challenged to grow. Together, we will slow things down, explore how your history shapes your present, and build a more grounded, relational sense of self and more sustainable ways of connecting with others.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session, we will slow down and get a clear picture of what brings you in now and what you hope will be different. I will ask about your current concerns, important relationships, and relevant history, while moving at a pace that feels respectful and not overwhelming. For couples, I will invite each partner to share their perspective and goals, and we will clarify immediate priorities such as boundaries and communication. By the end of the session, we will collaborate on initial goals and next steps so you leave knowing what we are working toward together.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My greatest strengths as a therapist include my systemic, relational lens and my comfort working with complex, high-intensity dynamics such as domestic violence, deep conflict, and parenting under stress. I am skilled at tracking patterns between people and across generations, naming them gently but clearly, and helping clients experiment with new ways of responding in the moment. Clients often tell me they appreciate that I am both compassionate and direct: I validate their experiences and survival strategies while also holding boundaries and inviting accountability and change. I bring advanced doctoral-level training in couple and family therapy and a strong interest in family-of-origin work, which allows me to help clients understand how their histories shape their current relationships and to support them in developing a more secure, relational sense of self.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
My ideal clients are individuals and couples who are ready to look honestly at their relationship patterns, even when it feels uncomfortable. I work especially well with people navigating conflict in relationships, separation or reconciliation decisions, and parenting challenges. I also support clients who are curious about their family of origin and want to understand how early roles, loyalties, and unspoken rules show up in their current relationships. You do not need to “have it all together” to start; you just need a willingness to be curious, reflect, and try something different, one step at a time.
Strength-Based
Strength-based work is woven into everything I do as a therapist. Rather than viewing clients only through a lens of problems or diagnoses, I pay close attention to the ways they have already coped, survived, and tried to protect themselves and their relationships, even when those strategies are no longer working. In practice, this means I slow down with clients to identify existing skills, cultural and community resources, supportive relationships, and moments of resilience, and then intentionally build on those.
Relational
Relational work is at the core of my approach. Rather than focusing only on individual symptoms, I pay close attention to how patterns show up in the space between people: how partners communicate, repair, withdraw, escalate, or care for each other, and how early experiences and family of origins shape those patterns in the present. In session, I help clients slow down and notice what is happening in the moment between us and between each other, so that new, functional ways of relating can be practiced in real time.