Individual Therapy

Come as you are, we will begin there

Therapy that helps you reconnect with yourself

I believe there is something deeply meaningful about being truly seen and understood. In a world that often asks us to move faster, do more, and hold everything together, having a space where you can simply be human feels increasingly rare.

We are wired for connection, and I believe healing happens within relationships where we feel safe enough to slow down, become curious, and explore our experience without judgment. It is one of the greatest privileges of my work to share that space with the people I meet.

Both through my work as a therapist and through my own experience in therapy, I began to notice a common pattern. So many of us respond to emotional pain by trying to think our way out of it. We analyze ourselves, replay conversations, search for answers, work harder, and put pressure on ourselves to "figure it out." We become overwhelmed by our thoughts while believing we should somehow be doing more.

Often, therapy can unintentionally reinforce this pattern. We spend the hour talking about our problems, understanding why they exist, and leaving with another idea to try. Insight is valuable, but insight alone does not always create change.

Over time, I came to believe that something important was missing. The approach that feels most authentic to me is rooted in slowing down. Rather than rushing to solve or change what you are experiencing, we begin by noticing it. Together, we gently turn toward the thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and protective patterns that have been working hard to help you navigate life. When we bring awareness to experiences that usually happen on autopilot, they become less overwhelming and more understandable. From that place, change begins to unfold naturally rather than through force.

This way of working is informed by neuroscience, attachment theory, parts work, mindfulness, and experiential therapies. More importantly, it is grounded in the belief that you are not broken. Your mind and body have developed patterns for good reasons, and together we can begin to understand them with curiosity and compassion instead of criticism. My hope is that therapy becomes more than a place to vent or collect coping strategies. I hope it becomes a place where you develop a different relationship with yourself, one built on awareness, understanding, and the confidence that meaningful change is possible.

What Therapy Is (and Is Not)

Therapy is not about fixing you.
It is about understanding you. Many of us have spent years trying to change ourselves through willpower, self-criticism, or simply trying harder. Therapy offers something different. Together, we slow down to understand what your thoughts, emotions, body, and protective patterns have been trying to communicate. Often, understanding creates the conditions for change in a way that force never could.

You can't do therapy wrong.
Therapy is a space to speak openly, even if your thoughts feel messy, uncertain, uncomfortable, or hard to put into words. Sometimes the things we want to avoid talking about end up being the most important. There’s no pressure to say things perfectly.

Talking really can help.
At first, it may not seem obvious how talking can create change. But being able to slow down, reflect, and feel understood can gradually shift the way you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes we will slow down enough to notice what is happening beneath the words, a feeling, a body sensation, a hesitation, or a familiar pattern. These moments often hold the understanding that talking alone can miss. Over time, patterns become clearer, new perspectives emerge, and change begins to feel possible.

Meaningful change takes time.
The ways we protect ourselves often develop over many years. It makes sense that understanding them, and discovering new ways of relating to ourselves, takes time too. Therapy is rarely about dramatic breakthroughs. More often, it is made up of small moments of awareness that gradually lead to new possibilities.

The relationship matters.
One of the strongest predictors of successful therapy is the relationship itself. Feeling emotionally safe, understood, and accepted creates the conditions where we can explore experiences that may have never felt safe to share before. You do not have to do this alone.

Therapy Is not always comfortable.
It’s normal for therapy to sometimes bring up discomfort, frustration, sadness, anger, or even the urge to stop coming. Often, these moments are meaningful and worth exploring together rather than pulling away from. Sometimes therapy brings relief. Sometimes it brings sadness, frustration, uncertainty, or the feeling that you want to avoid coming back. These moments are not signs that something is going wrong. Often, they are opportunities to become curious about patterns that are unfolding in real time.

Adapted from Jonathan Shedler's post: Getting Started in Psychotherapy: A Guide for Patients

Who Do I Work With?

I work with people. The diagnosis (anxiety, depression, CPTSD, OCD) is secondary, you are a person first. I want to understand your patterns of adaptability and work to create more flexibility.

Many of the people I work with describe feeling overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from themselves. They may struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-doubt, or finding it difficult to trust their own thoughts and feelings.

I also work with people who are recovering from emotionally abusive or narcissistic relationships. These experiences can leave you questioning yourself, doubting your reality, or feeling like you have lost touch with who you are. Therapy can become a place to gently rebuild trust in your own experience.

Whether you are navigating relationship difficulties, burnout, trauma, or simply a sense that you have lost yourself along the way, my focus is less on the label and more on understanding the patterns that have developed in response to your life experiences.

Together, we slow down, become curious, and make sense of what your mind and body have been trying to communicate.