I believe — and have experienced both personally and professionally — that a calm, clear, and confident center can develop by strengthening our connection to our most essential self. This includes healing what holds us back and building on what already works.

I care deeply about helping people move from suffering to flourishing in their lives. Many of the people who find their way to my work are thoughtful, capable, wonderful human beings — and still feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, grieving or unable to settle in ways they can’t quite explain. Often, they’ve already done a great deal of personal work and sense that something important hasn’t yet had space to move.

I’ve walked my own healing path. It’s deeply meaningful to accompany others as they address challenges, deepen their inner relationships, and build more fulfilling connections with the people they love. Our work together is about helping you breathe easier, understand yourself more fully, and move forward with greater steadiness, compassion and clarity.

Therapy as an Act of Self-Investment

Therapy is an act of self-investment and self-compassion. When we deepen our connection to the core of who we are, we’re able to see ourselves and our lives more clearly — and act in ways that create change that feels genuine and sustainable. This work is about reconnecting with who you already are, moving through what interferes with that connection, and building a foundation that leads to a well-lived life.

When we work together, my first priority is creating a relationship that feels steady, respectful, and real. I don’t believe meaningful change happens through pressure, performance, or being told what to do. It happens when people feel safe enough to slow down, be met, and listen to what their experience is actually asking for.

My work is experiential, relational, and depth-oriented. We stay close to emotional and bodily experience as it unfolds, steadily moving at a pace that feels right to your nervous system. I’m attentive not only to what’s being said, but to what’s happening beneath the words — the subtle shifts — that shape how you move through the world.

Experiential, Emotion-Focused, and Relational

I work experientially because connecting with your felt sense — your emotions and bodily experience in the present moment — is often the most direct route to insight and change. Our past is deeply intertwined with how we experience ourselves, our relationships, our work, and the world. By staying with what’s happening now, we can process and learn from the past without simply reliving old wounds.

I am emotion-focused because emotions function as powerful sources of information, meaning, and direction. They play a central role in resilience, self-protection, vitality, and connection. Over time, I’ve seen again and again that steadiness develops by strengthening our connection to our most effective and alive selves.

I work relationally because meaningful therapy happens within a real relationship that is open to all aspects of who you are.

Trauma-Informed and Integrative

I am trauma-informed in the deepest sense of the term. This means recognizing how past experiences — including early relational experiences — shape present-day patterns, symptoms, and relationships.

Depending on what’s emerging in a given moment, I work both within more singular experiential frames and through thoughtful integration. Some people want a focused, “pure” experiential approach; others benefit from a synthesis of trauma-focused and experiential methods. In either case, the work is guided by your nervous system’s readiness rather than applied as a set of techniques.

Overwhelm comes in all forms. I also work closely with individuals who are navigating the impact and complexity of loss, grief, and relationship ruptures, betrayals or endings. I believe each person’s experience and process is unique to them. I deeply respect the time, effort, pace and space required to move through life-altering change.

Approach & Methods

My work is guided by lived experience. While I draw from established experiential, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed approaches, methods are always in service of what’s unfolding in the room — not the other way around.

The approaches that inform my work include AEDP, an experiential psychotherapy, attachment-focused and parts-informed work, IFS, EMDR, DBR, and somatic methods. These frameworks are invaluable, but they never replace attunement, pacing, or the real relationship at the center of the work.

If you’d like to explore these approaches in more depth, you can read more on the Approach & Methods page.

How I Work

I am an active, present, focused guide. No blank faces. No excessive head-nodding. No evasiveness. I work alongside you — listening carefully, responding honestly, and helping you understand and put down what you’ve been carrying.

I bring patience, persistence, humor, playfulness, and straightforwardness into the room. Therapy needs to be real, attuned, and carefully held. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system and your readiness.

Background & Training

I am an integrative trauma therapist with a long-standing commitment to experiential, attachment-focused work. I am a Certified AEDP Therapist, a Certified AEDP Institute Training Supervisor, and a global AEDP Therapy Consultant for therapists in training.

My training also includes extensive study in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, DBR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Breathwork and related somatic and trauma-informed approaches. My work is informed by contemporary research and neuroscience on trauma, attachment, and emotional processing, and shaped by 20 years of clinical experience helping individual who are holding complexity.

In addition to clinical practice, I am involved in teaching, consultation, and supervision, supporting other clinicians in developing confidence and depth in experiential and trauma-focused work. If you’d like to explore my CV, you can read more on the background & training page.

Additional Areas of Care

I have extensive experience working with individuals who have chosen sobriety — as well as with those who want to understand, explore, or lessen the impact of alcohol, sex, or other behaviors without necessarily stopping altogether. I approach this work with respect for personal choice and curiosity about what truly serves you.

I am also open and affirming around sexuality and sexual expression. I consider myself a sex-positive therapist, meaning I believe consensual pleasure is healthy; bodies and preferences are not problems to be fixed; and education, reflection, and open discussion are far more helpful than shame or conformity.

To learn more, visit ways of working together page.