I am a compassionate, collaborative therapist who helps individuals and couples reach their therapy goals using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy, along with other integrative techniques tailored to each client’s needs. I focus on educating and guiding clients toward healthier coping skills, improved communication, stronger emotional awareness, balanced routines, and more fulfilling relationships. My approach is direct yet supportive and solution-focused, offering practical tools and guidance so clients feel empowered, confident, and supported throughout their therapeutic journey.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Your first therapy session is an opportunity for us to explore what you are currently experiencing and what you hope to gain from 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 and at ease.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
What sets my work apart is my commitment to creating a safe, supportive environment where clients feel genuinely heard, understood, and accepted. Many clients share that this sense of comfort helps them feel less alone and more hopeful about change. I support clients in exploring unresolved or challenging experiences while also providing practical tools and strategies they can use in daily life. My approach is encouraging and solution-focused, with an emphasis on psychoeducation to help clients better understand their experiences and make meaningful, lasting progress toward their goals.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
My approaches are best suited for individuals who want to better understand their thought patterns and emotional responses, and who are open to insight, reflection, and skill-building. I also work effectively with couples who are willing to invest effort into improving communication, increasing understanding, and engaging in meaningful self-reflection. In our work together, we identify unresolved experiences, enhance emotional coping skills, and foster greater emotional balance and inner calm.
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.