Paige Pelonis Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

I approach PTSD with curiosity, care, and respect for the ways people have learned to survive difficult experiences. Rather than seeing you as a collection of symptoms, we will explore how trauma may be shaping the stories you carry about yourself, your relationships, and the world around you. Our work can include building safety, making room for difficult emotions, noticing patterns, and reconnecting with parts of yourself and your life that trauma may have pushed aside.

I approach grief as something to be witnessed and carried, not a problem to solve or a process with a prescribed timeline. Whether you are grieving a death, relationship, identity, opportunity, or a life you expected to have, therapy can offer space for the complexity of loss. Together, we can make room for what hurts, explore how loss is reshaping your story, and find ways to stay connected to what matters as you move forward.

I approach burnout as more than simply having too much to do. It can come from spending so much time caring, performing, producing, or holding things together that there is little room left for you. Together, we can explore the expectations and patterns keeping you depleted, make space for what your exhaustion may be telling you, and find ways to reconnect with your needs, boundaries, relationships, and sense of purpose without adding “fix yourself” to your to-do list.

I use a psychodynamic lens to get curious about how past experiences, important relationships, and patterns you may not always notice are showing up in your life today. This does not mean endlessly analyzing your childhood. Instead, we will pay attention to recurring themes, emotions, relationships, and ways of protecting yourself, creating space to understand where they came from and decide whether they still serve you.

I approach couples therapy with curiosity about the patterns that develop between partners, rather than looking for who is right or wrong. Together, we will slow down difficult interactions, explore what each of you is experiencing beneath them, and notice the stories, expectations, and past experiences shaping your relationship. We will work toward greater understanding, more honest communication, and new ways of connecting with one another.

I use narrative therapy to explore the stories you carry about yourself, your relationships, and your life. Together, we will get curious about where those stories came from, which ones have become limiting, and what may have been overlooked along the way. Rather than defining you by a problem, we will make space for your strengths, values, hopes, and experiences and explore new possibilities for the story you want to keep writing.