Therapy
Whatever you're carrying right now, you don't have to sort through it alone. Below are the ways we can work together — each one a starting point for reconnecting with yourself and moving toward the life you want.
What I Offer
I believe symptoms often represent intelligent adaptations rather than personal failures. Anxiety, depression, trauma responses, and compulsive behaviors frequently develop as ways the nervous system learns to survive overwhelming experiences.
Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" I ask,
"What happened to you, and how has your nervous system learned to protect you?"
Treatment integrates evidence-based psychotherapy with body-centered approaches to support lasting change.
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PTSD & Complex Trauma
Safely processing the lasting effects of traumatic experiences through a mind-body approach.Childhood Abuse & Neglect
Exploring early relational wounds, attachment patterns, and survival strategies developed in childhood.Grief & Loss
Supporting the emotional and physical experience of losing a loved one, relationship, identity, or life chapter. -
Chronic Anxiety & Panic
Understanding protective fight-or-flight responses while helping your nervous system experience greater safety.Depression & Emotional Shutdown
Gently working with freeze responses and reconnecting with energy, emotion, and daily life.Family & Relationship Challenges
Navigating boundaries, people-pleasing, attachment wounds, and relationship patterns rooted in early experiences. -
Supporting individuals at every stage of change using a compassionate, nonjudgmental approach that addresses both behavior and the underlying nervous system patterns.
My Process
Healing isn't about forcing change—it's about creating the conditions where change becomes possible. Every therapeutic journey is unique, but our work often follows these four stages.
Create Safety
Healing begins by creating a space where your nervous system can slow down, feel supported, and begin experiencing safety without judgment or pressure.
Build Awareness
Together we'll explore how past experiences have shaped your emotions, relationships, and protective patterns with curiosity and compassion.
Process & Heal
Using Somatic Experiencing®, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and other evidence-based approaches, we'll gently process what has been held in both the mind and body.
Integrate & Grow
As your nervous system experiences greater safety, you'll begin building healthier patterns, deeper self-understanding, and lasting change.
“Trauma is not what happened to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness”-Peter Levine
Is This the Right Fit?
Therapy doesn't require you to be in crisis. Sometimes it's simply the feeling that something isn't working anymore. If any of these experiences resonate with you, we may be a good fit.
You may be feeling...
- ✓Constantly on edge, even when nothing feels immediately wrong.
- ✓Emotionally exhausted from always being the strong one.
- ✓Disconnected from yourself, your relationships, or the life you want to be living.
- ✓Like you're surviving each day instead of truly living it.
You may notice...
- ✓Anxiety, panic, or overwhelming emotions that seem to appear without warning.
- ✓Patterns in relationships that keep repeating despite your best efforts to change them.
- ✓Using substances or other coping strategies simply to get through the day.
- ✓Feeling emotionally numb, stuck, or unable to move forward after difficult experiences.
Together we'll work toward...
- ✓Understanding your experiences through compassion instead of self-criticism.
- ✓Helping your nervous system experience greater safety and regulation.
- ✓Building healthier relationships with yourself and the people around you.
- ✓Creating lasting change that feels sustainable—not forced.