I am a compassionate, collaborative therapist who supports individuals and couples in achieving their therapy goals using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotion-Focused Therapy, along with integrative techniques tailored to each client’s needs. I focus on helping clients develop healthier coping skills, improve communication, strengthen emotional awareness, establish balanced routines, and cultivate more fulfilling relationships. My work also emphasizes fostering self-compassion, assertiveness, confidence, and positive perspectives on life circumstances. My approach is direct yet supportive, solution-focused, and grounded in practical tools and guidance, empowering clients to feel confident and supported throughout their therapeutic journey. I bring my genuine self, professional knowledge, and years of experience to create a trusting, collaborative relationship where both client and therapist can feel confident in working together.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Your first session is an opportunity to explore your current experiences, challenges, and what you hope to achieve in therapy. Toward the end of the session, we will begin outlining initial goals to guide our work together. I will also explain my approach to therapy and answer any questions you may have about the process, my style, or starting therapy, ensuring you feel informed, supported, and at ease. When working with adolescents, I request that at least one parent or guardian be present for the first session. This allows us to gather relevant information, discuss confidentiality guidelines, and establish a mutual understanding among all parties involved in the therapeutic process. Throughout treatment, parental sessions—either with or without the teen—will be scheduled as needed to provide guidance on parental involvement and family dynamics. This approach enhances the overall care and benefits for the primary client, the child.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
What sets my work apart is my commitment to creating a supportive, collaborative environment where clients are fully aware of the therapeutic process and the interventions I use. I prioritize aligning my guidance and support with each client’s unique goals. Many clients share that this sense of understanding and comfort helps them feel less alone and more hopeful about the possibility of meaningful change. I support clients in exploring unresolved or challenging experiences and, when appropriate, may recommend the most suitable setting for addressing their emotional and mental well-being—such as starting with individual therapy before engaging in couples or family sessions. At the same time, I provide practical tools and strategies that clients can apply in their daily lives. My approach is encouraging, solution-focused, and grounded in psychoeducation, helping clients gain insight into their experiences and make lasting progress toward their goals.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with individuals and couples across a wide range of life stages, including teenagers (ages 13–17) and adults (18 through older adulthood). I am best suited for clients who are motivated to explore their thoughts, emotions, and patterns, and who are open to psychoeducation and therapeutic guidance as part of their growth process. My approach is collaborative and supportive, helping clients gain insight into their mindset while developing practical tools for change. I aim to create a space where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity and confidence. I am a good fit for those seeking guidance in understanding themselves and improving their relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
In therapy, I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you understand how your thoughts affect your feelings and behaviors. Together, we’ll explore patterns in your thinking, identify unhelpful or distorted thoughts, and work on replacing them with healthier, more balanced ways of thinking. This approach can help you better manage your emotions, respond to challenges more effectively, and develop practical strategies for creating positive changes in your life.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
I use Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples increase awareness of their emotions and build confidence in accepting, expressing, regulating, reflecting on, and reshaping them. This process supports healthier responses, strengthens emotional connection and reliance, and improves communication to enhance understanding between partners, fostering more positive interactions and desired behaviors in challenging situations. EFIT (Emotionally Focused-Individual-Therapy) assists individual clients by helping them understand, regulate, and transform their emotional experiences—especially those shaped by attachment needs and past relational experiences.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
I like to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in combination with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in specific phases of therapy to help clients develop Unconditional Self-Acceptance and enhance self-love. Together, we identify self-defeating thoughts, challenge patterns of irrational or unproductive beliefs, and replace them with healthier, more constructive ways of thinking that support positive emotions and behaviors. REBT is a form of CBT that focuses on how beliefs about events—rather than the events themselves—cause emotional and behavioral distress.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
As a therapist, I find it beneficial to integrate multiple interventions with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Integrating Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), I support clients in exploring and processing the deeper emotions that underlie automatic thoughts and behaviors. Through reflecting on past experiences within a safe therapeutic relationship, clients are able to transform emotional patterns and create healthier outcomes for the future. AEDP emphasizes healing through lived emotional experience, not insight alone.
Attachment-based
I have learned throughout my therapy career that there is great benefit to explore Attachment Styles and its difficulties in our process of connecting with our partners, engage in our relationships with the world. Attachment-based approaches helps clients identify underlying experiences that influence their current behaviors and relationship patterns, work toward uncovering the roots of attachment difficulties and gain support in achieving greater understanding of why and determine what changes can be created to enhance connection and healthier relational dynamics.