About My practice

Does it feel like no one really understands you?

Are you yearning for something that is missing?

When I sit with a client, either an individual or a couple, my primary objective is to fully see and deeply understand them and their experience. Feeling like someone “gets” and accepts you is critical to developing self-worth. Yet many of us have never felt truly appreciated for our unique selves by our families or the others closest to us. That absence and the ache it causes is often underneath the issues that bring clients to therapy. In therapy, feeling seen and accepted is how the healing begins. 

Does it sometimes feel like you are stuck, repeating the same behaviors that cause you pain?

 My goal as a therapist is to build a collaborative relationship with my clients.  Together we can peel back the protective layers and gently reveal the sources of the pain beneath.  Maybe you’ve done a lot of work on yourself and developed a keen self-awareness, yet you still can’t find love for yourself and build the life you want. These are often the roots driving our habits and the self-defeating patterns we use to prevent ourselves from being hurt again.  The fear of vulnerability and the behaviors we employ to keep us safe, may now be preventing us from receiving love from others and creating the types of relationships we desire.

Maybe you feel unworthy of love? Maybe you don’t truly like yourself…

Our beliefs about ourselves often keep us rooted in shame, stuck in a world where we are unworthy of the things we want, including self-love. Wouldn’t it be amazing to shed your negative self beliefs and develop new ways of interacting with the world that creates new opportunities for growth and relationships built on trust and acceptance? I can help you write a new narrative focused on the present and the future, not driven by the past. A life with joy and contentment.

Maybe other therapists just weren’t a good fit…

Our relationship is the foundation of your healing journey. I learned this through my own healing journeys with two therapists who saw me fully and created the safety for me to explore the painful experiences in my past that paralyzed me. All of my work is relational, attachment-based, and trauma-informed. This means that our relationship is built on trust and my unconditional acceptance of you as a fellow human.  My hope is that you will feel safe being yourself and can find the courage to be vulnerable. I hope our relationship can help heal past relationship injuries and help you build healthy functional relationships in the future.