No two people arrive at therapy with the same story, which means treatment here is never one-size-fits-all. Every client brings their own history, their own strengths, and their own definition of what feeling better actually looks like. That shapes everything we do together.

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My approach is grounded in trauma-informed care, mindfulness, and genuine collaboration. The goal is not just to manage what is on the surface but to understand what is driving it. Real change tends to happen when we stop treating symptoms and start looking at what is underneath them.

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I help teens and adults create lasting change with a variety of evidenced-based interventions.

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Trauma-Informed Therapy:

The experiences you feel most determined to guard, the ones tucked away in the places you hope no one ever looks, have a way of quietly shaping everything. From the way you see yourself, to the way you move through relationships to the way we respond to the world around us, these experience can have an impact. If you have been through something difficult, something that left a mark you weren't sure you could ever speak out loud, you are not alone. And you don't have to keep carrying it that way.

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Trauma-informed therapy is not about forcing you to relive what happened or moving faster than feels safe. It is about creating the kind of space where the most difficult parts of your story can finally be met with compassion rather than judgment and at a pace that honors where you are in your process. The relationship between therapist and client is at the heart of this work, because healing from trauma requires trust before it requires anything else.

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Through a confidential, supportive environment and approaches specifically designed with trauma in mind, we can work together to gently loosen what has been held too tightly for too long.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:

Most of us have a running internal dialogue that we rarely stop to question. It shapes how we see ourselves, how we interpret what happens around us, and ultimately what we do in response. When that dialogue is built on old pain or distorted beliefs, it tends to drive us toward patterns that feel automatic but keep us stuck.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by helping you slow that process down. Together, we look at the connections between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. We identify where the cycle is breaking down and build skills for helping you interrupt it. 

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When this all comes together, the thoughts that once sent you into a spiral start to lose their grip, the behaviors that used to feel impossible to stop become easier to step away from and the way you see yourself begins to change, too. Through this work, you make progress on all three levels: thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

EMDR Therapy:

Some people have had the experience of knowing something is true but not being able to feel it that way. You understand, logically, that what happened wasn't your fault and that you are not defined by what you went through. But somewhere underneath that knowledge, a different unhelpful story is still running. EMDR looks to bridge this gap.

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When you go through a difficult experience, the strong emotions you experienced may impact your brain's ability to fully process it. The memory remains stuck in your nervous system, acting like a tripwire that shows up as anxiety, low self-worth, or patterns of behavior that feel difficult to break.

By engaging your brain's natural memory processing system by following a moving light or the therapist's hand with your eyes, or experiencing gentle tapping or sounds that alternate from side to side EMDR can help reprocess these memories so that they no longer impact how you function today. These memories are not erased nor are difficult experiences made to feel acceptable. The aim is to allow you to experience them as part of your story rather than situations that continue to define your present. 

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EMDR has been helpful for those who have engaged in traditional talk therapy and feel like their progress has been limited or has plateaued. It does not require you to describe or relive painful memories in detail which can make a meaningful difference for those who have found that talking about a memory feels like reopening a wound. 

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EMDR does not have to stand alone. It can be woven into our work together, complementing the insights and skills you are already building through other approaches. If you are ready to shift the beliefs that have kept you stuck, quiet the noise in your nervous system, and loosen the grip that difficult memories have on your everyday life this may be the next step worth exploring.

Psychodynamic Therapy:

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is rooted in the belief that the patterns shaping your present are often written in your past. Together, we explore what lives beneath the surface: the unspoken narratives, the early experiences, and the relationships that shaped who you are. This is not about assigning blame or reopening old wounds for the sake of it. It is about understanding yourself more fully so that the past loses its grip on your present.

In our work together, the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space for something different. A place to be seen without judgment, to sit with what has been too difficult to face alone, and to slowly untangle what no longer serves you. Drawing on the deeper layers of your inner world, psychodynamic therapy moves beyond symptom management toward a genuine shift in how you understand yourself and how you move through your life.Through a collaborative and reflective process, you can begin to recognize the threads connecting where you have been to where you are and take control of where you are going!

Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families:

Growing up in a home shaped by alcohol, addiction, or dysfunction has a way of making the abnormal feel normal and the normal feel out of reach. You may have learned early on to hold it all together while everything around you felt uncertain and now it  shows up in the way you navigate conflict, the way you experience intimacy, the way you respond to stress or uncertainty, and the quiet but persistent voice that tells you that you are too much, or not enough, or somehow responsible for things that were never yours to carry.

Working with adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families is a process of unlearning as much as it is a process of healing. Together, we can begin to untangle what was taught from what is true for you now. If you have spent years feeling like you are still waiting for the other shoe to drop or still wondering why certain things feel so much harder for you than they seem to for everyone else therapy is a place where that can begin to make sense.