New to Grow
Welcome — I’m glad you’re here. I provide therapy for adolescents, adults, and couples in a supportive, compassionate, and nonjudgmental space where clients can feel safe exploring the challenges they’re facing. I specialize in trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, relationship struggles, and life transitions using a warm, trauma-informed approach. I integrate EMDR, attachment-based therapy, ACT, mindfulness, and relational approaches to help clients better understand themselves, heal emotional wounds, and build healthier patterns in their lives and relationships. My goal is to help clients feel more grounded, connected, and empowered as they move toward healing and meaningful change.
The first session is a chance for us to get to know each other and begin building a sense of comfort and trust. We’ll talk about what’s bringing you to therapy, what has been feeling difficult lately, and what you hope for moving forward. You do not need to have everything figured out before coming in, and there is no pressure to share more than feels comfortable. I’ll ask questions to better understand your experiences, relationships, stressors, and strengths, while also making space for you to ask questions and get a feel for whether we’re a good fit. My approach is warm, collaborative, and paced thoughtfully, and together we’ll begin identifying goals and a path forward that feels supportive and manageable for you.
One of the strengths I bring to therapy is the ability to balance warmth, insight, and practicality. Clients often tell me they feel deeply understood and emotionally safe in sessions, while also leaving with greater clarity, perspective, and tools they can actually use in everyday life. My style is relational, down-to-earth, and collaborative, and I believe healing happens best when clients feel genuinely seen rather than judged or “analyzed.” In addition to professional training in trauma, attachment, EMDR, and relational therapy, I bring real-life experience navigating relationships, parenting, grief, transitions, and the complexity of being human. I understand that people are often carrying far more beneath the surface than others realize, and I strive to create a space where clients do not have to perform, hide, or have everything together. I also tend to work especially well with thoughtful, self-aware clients who may intellectually understand their struggles but still feel emotionally stuck in patterns of anxiety, overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, relationship difficulties, or self-doubt. My approach focuses not only on insight, but on helping clients feel more connected, grounded, and emotionally secure within themselves and their relationships.
I work well with teens and adults who may feel overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, disconnected from themselves, or caught in patterns that no longer serve them. Many of my clients are thoughtful, self-aware people who struggle with anxiety, relationship stress, people-pleasing, perfectionism, trauma, grief, or difficulty feeling emotionally safe and secure in relationships. I also work with clients navigating life transitions, attachment wounds, betrayal trauma, low self-worth, burnout, and nervous system overwhelm. Some clients come to therapy wanting to better understand themselves, while others are looking for practical tools to feel calmer, more confident, and more connected in their daily lives and relationships. My approach is supportive, collaborative, and grounded in creating a space where clients feel emotionally safe, understood, and empowered to heal and grow at their own pace.
Other specialties
I identify as
EMDR
I use EMDR to help clients work through painful experiences that may still feel emotionally “stuck,” even when they understand things logically. Many people notice patterns like anxiety, overwhelm, self-doubt, people-pleasing, emotional triggers, or difficulty feeling safe and connected in relationships, and EMDR can help reduce the intensity of those reactions over time. My approach is warm, supportive, and paced carefully. I focus first on helping clients feel grounded and emotionally safe before moving into deeper processing work. I often combine EMDR with mindfulness, coping skills, and nervous system regulation techniques to help clients feel more balanced both during and outside of sessions. EMDR can be helpful for trauma, anxiety, grief, relationship wounds, betrayal, and negative beliefs about yourself that may have developed from difficult life experiences.
Attachment-based
I use an attachment-based approach to help clients better understand how past relationships and life experiences may be shaping the way they feel about themselves, connect with others, handle conflict, or respond emotionally today. Many people notice patterns like fear of rejection, difficulty trusting others, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, anxiety in relationships, or feeling disconnected, and attachment-focused therapy can help bring awareness and healing to those patterns. My approach is supportive, compassionate, and focused on creating a safe therapeutic relationship where clients can explore emotions without judgment. I help clients build healthier boundaries, increase emotional awareness, strengthen self-worth, and develop more secure and connected relationships with themselves and others. Attachment-based therapy can be especially helpful for relationship struggles, childhood wounds, trauma, anxiety, grief, and patterns that continue to repeat in adult relationships or life transitions.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients respond to difficult thoughts and emotions in healthier, more flexible ways rather than feeling controlled by them. Many people come to therapy feeling stuck in anxiety, overthinking, self-criticism, avoidance, or emotional overwhelm, and ACT helps clients learn how to make room for those experiences while still moving toward the life they want to live. My approach is practical, supportive, and grounded in helping clients reconnect with their values, strengths, and sense of meaning. Together, we work on building self-awareness, coping skills, emotional flexibility, and healthier patterns so clients can feel more present and intentional in their daily lives and relationships. ACT can be especially helpful for anxiety, stress, perfectionism, life transitions, relationship struggles, grief, and feeling disconnected from yourself or your purpose.
Gottman method
I use Gottman Method techniques to help couples improve communication, rebuild trust, reduce conflict, and strengthen emotional connection. I help partners better understand relationship patterns, practice healthier communication skills, and create more emotional safety and understanding within the relationship.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I incorporate mindfulness and body-based approaches to help clients become more aware of how stress, trauma, and emotions show up in the nervous system and body. These techniques can help clients feel more grounded, present, and emotionally regulated in daily life.