Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I work best with clients who want more than quick coping skills—they want to understand themselves at depth. Many of my clients are living with the long aftermath of childhood trauma, attachment trauma, chronic shame, codependency, anxiety, low self-esteem, people-pleasing, burnout, or repeating relationship patterns. You may look high-functioning on the outside while privately feeling stuck in overthinking, poor boundaries, self-doubt, or patterns shaped by narcissistic abuse.
My Background and Approach
My style is warm, direct, grounded, and relational; I blend psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, depth psychology, attachment-based therapy, CBT, and liberation psychology. In practice, we look at how your current identity was shaped by earlier relationships, environments, and survival demands. We track the patterns you repeat automatically—people-pleasing, over functioning, self-sacrifice, emotional shutdown, overthinking, or chasing approval—and ask what they once protected. As those patterns become more conscious, you can begin separating your authentic voice from fear, guilt, shame, and attachment-based roles. We pair insight with experimentation outside of session, so change is not just intellectual. The goal is not endless analysis, but helping you understand your patterns, loosening them, and build a life that feels more real, steady, and self-directed. I bring years of clinical training, experience training therapists, and a decade-long Buddhist practice to this work.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe healing is not just about reducing symptoms. It is about seeing the survival strategies, false identities, and attachment-based roles that once kept you connected, protected, or valued, but now keep you stuck. Many people are trying to build a life from shame, performance, self-sacrifice, or chronic vigilance without realizing it. Real healing involves becoming conscious of those patterns, relating to yourself with more honesty and compassion, and building a life that actually supports your nervous system, values, and voice. My perspective is shaped by my clinical training, my lived experience with mental illness and being a former college athlete, and a long-term Buddhist practice. I tend to think of healing as both deep psychological work and daily practice: learning how to observe the mind, step out of reenactments, and stop organizing your life around old wounds. I strive to offer therapy that is emotionally attuned, depth-oriented, liberatory, and real.