New to Grow
Welcome! How’s your relationship? I’m confident you can find freedom from painful patterns and grow into healthy detachment, authentic intimacy, increased self-worth, peaceful autonomy, and deep functional communication. Good therapy offers you healing and support for relational trauma, infidelity, hostile communication, imbalances of power, and coparenting/divorce challenges. My therapeutic approach employees empirically supported treatments geared to enhancing a client’s core worth while learning workable relational patterns. As a licensed professional counselor and a PhD resident in general psychology, it is my privilege to work with people who are ready to recover from dysfunctional interpersonal patterns and relationships. My goal in the counseling relationship is to provide hope, education, and compassionate insight to my clients as they apply the tools required to improve their life and relationships.
In your first session with me, you can expect a warm and nonjudgmental environment, where your feelings and experience will be heard and validated. In my office, you will always feel seen. While the prospect of counseling may feel intimidating, my focus is on helping you feel safe and understood right away. Together, we will explore your concerns and challenges in the order of importance to you. My goal even in session one is to equip you with a practical insight or tool to help you gain immediate momentum in your journey toward recovery.
As a clinician, my greatest strength lies in my ability to foster a caring and safe bond, wherein clients feel secure enough to explore their challenges across the continuum of their history, present and future. My direct, yet compassionate approach encourages open dialogue, allowing us to team up as we tackle difficult topics while maintaining a focus on client growth. I believe in empowering clients to replicate the healthy dynamic we create therapy outside my office. I equip clients with the discernment and tools to set boundaries, navigate relationships, and break free from toxic patterns. This collaborative process not only facilitates healing, but also promotes lasting change in various aspects of their lives.
My therapeutic focus centers on helping partners who’ve lost themselves in painful relationship patterns. I specialize in treating those wounded by power and control dynamics, toxic partnerships, betrayal trauma, sex addiction and porn use, alcoholism, and narcissistic abuse. The heart of my practice aids clients recovering from dysfunctional and/or abusive dynamics. I focus on codependency recovery, healing family systems, and offering support and tools to find freedom from relational trauma and high conflict partnerships.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I utilize Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a way to help clients explore their inner world and how it’s affecting their relationships. By engaging through IFS, we can better understand our longstanding (but perhaps currently unhelpful) roles and how they influence our emotions and behavior. I find this method effective because it fosters self compassion, encourages personal growth, enhances understanding, and helps clients come to peace within themselves. Together, we can work to navigate these internal relationship relationships and heal from past experiences.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment theory (ACT) provides a way to help navigate thoughts and emotions more effectively. ACT emphasizes the importance of accepting what we cannot change while committing to actions that align with our values. This approach encourages mindfulness and helps us develop a greater awareness of the present moment. I find that ACT helps clients become effective because it empowers them to take meaningful steps in their lives, fostering resilience, and enhancing overall well-being.