My Story

My style is compassionate, curious, and heartfelt. I deeply value the resilience and uniqueness of each of my clients, and I will encourage you to do the same in order to identify you personal strengths, values, and goals. I favor mindfulness-based, attachment-based, and emotion-focused approaches, but I draw upon others as needed as I get to know your personality, culture, and needs. I aim to create a space for clients that is safe and supportive where you feel free to express yourself openly, honestly, and authentically. In the safety of the therapeutic space and relationship, we can explore your relationships with people and emotions, past and present. As we notice patterns and connections across time, we can draw insights about the ways in which old survival tools, while once adaptive, have become self-defeating. With mindfulness, we will slow down, connect with the present to notice thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgement. When we slow down enough to truly feel and express our emotions with the support of an empathetic, attuned other, we tap into our emotions' healing and vital functions for surviving and thriving, while learning new and more adaptive ways of relating to ourselves, others, and the world.

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I believe it is possible to have compassion for your current self and where you are right now, while desiring and working toward change. I also like to facilitate this process by teaching new practical skills in a safe setting that will strengthen your awareness and expand your repertoire of responding to painful thoughts, emotions, and experiences in more adaptive ways. With greater acceptance of our reality, we gain the clarity, control, and space to shed ways of relating with the world and ourselves that are harmful or unsustainable and begin to act in ways that are closer to our values and sense of purpose.