Services
- Individual
- Group
About My Clients
I work with people experiencing anxiety, panic, social anxiety, perfectionism, insomnia, nightmares, or behavioral patterns that have become hard to control, like compulsive internet, gaming, pornography, or AI use. If you’ve tried to think, avoid, or push your way out of it and nothing’s really shifted, you’re in the right place. Let’s talk.
My Background and Approach
I spent five years embedded in primary care in Central Oregon, working alongside physicians and medical teams. I genuinely enjoyed that work and the people I met along the way. I now offer short-term, focused therapy in private practice. This is not talk therapy or insight-oriented work. It is active, experiential, and exposure-based, meaning we work directly with the anxiety, avoidance, and patterns driving your symptoms rather than talking about them from a safe distance. I draw primarily on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and inhibitory learning-based exposure, and for sleep I integrate ACT with current evidence-based insomnia and nightmare treatment. This work requires real engagement between sessions and is designed to be focused and time-limited, working toward a clear endpoint rather than continuing indefinitely.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
The people I work with are not broken. They are struggling, and often caught in patterns that made sense at some point but are now making life harder. As humans we are wired to move away from painful experiences, whether internal or external. That instinct kept our ancestors alive, but in the modern world it can keep us stuck. Many people walk around thinking they are uniquely damaged when in fact most of us carry the same variations of self-doubt, shame, and self-criticism, just at different intensities. You are far less alone in this than it feels. Yet many people treat acknowledging their own suffering as self-pity or weakness, which only compounds it. Compassion and curiosity are important parts of real change, but so is action. Without skills and doing less of what makes life worse and more of what makes it better, lasting change rarely happens.