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About My Clients
I work best with people who are looking for more than a quick fix. People whose struggles have persisted despite their best efforts — patterns that keep returning, questions about identity that won't resolve, the sense that the life you've built doesn't quite fit the person living it. I work well with creatives, with people in transition, and with anyone willing to go deeper than the surface explanation. If you are looking for depth and exploration, we will work well together.
My Background and Approach
My approach is psychodynamic. I am interested in where the patterns come from. Not because the past explains everything, but because it organizes the present. Those patterns are how we learned to understand ourselves and the people around us. How we figured out — early, and often under pressure — how to get what we needed to survive. Therapy is the chance to hold those patterns up and ask whether they are still oriented toward the life you're living now, or whether they remain loyal to a world you've already left. I am also not dogmatic. The therapy we build together will not be the therapy I would build with someone else. It is made from the ground up, between us. At my core I believe that curiosity is the best guide we have. That being wrong inches us closer to what is true. That flexibility of mind matters. That the relationship between us is often the site where the healing actually happens. That laughter belongs in the room. That play is vital to development across a whole life.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Environmentalism is not a politics for me. It is a moral inheritance — owed to the earth, and to those who already pay its debts. The poor breathe the dirtier air. The global south carries the heat the global north has paid to escape. The places with the least power are the first to flood, the first to burn, the first to be told to move. To care for the earth is to care about who is allowed to live on it. That care extends to the voiceless species — to those who suffer inside structures of power they did not choose and cannot escape. I have been vegan for twenty-one years. The compassion I bring to the therapy room is the compassion I try bring to every living thing. I came to therapy through art. Poems, novels, films, plays — these were my first teachers in suffering and healing. They taught me what theory would later confirm: that a person is more than the surface of themselves, that meaning lives in what is not said. The arts are still where I go to listen.