Good individual therapy is non-judgmental and collaborative. It fosters insight, growth and healing.
It’s a space just for you.
“Transformation is possible, if we create the space for it to happen.”
How we work together:
We humans are wonderfully complex and everyone struggles with something. In the therapy room we work to make space for all of you – the parts you know and like, the parts that hold distress and pain, and the parts you struggle to accept.
I believe the more fully we know and express ourselves, the more able we are to live life with resilience, self-compassion, connection and vitality.
My style is transparent, curious and warm. As a relational therapist I am interested in all the relationships in your life: past, present, your relationship with yourself and our therapeutic relationship.
Areas of specialization:
Relationship issues
Trauma
Therapy for therapists and helpers
Struggles related to a painful or confusing childhood/family of origin
Highly sensitive folks
Shame/feelings of low self-worth
Mood Disorders
Are we a good fit?
My individual clients are bright, hard-working adults who find themselves feeling stuck in some area of their life – their relationships, their emotions, their work, their identity. They often struggle with issues around anxiety, self-worth, or shame, and tend to see themselves more critically than the rest of the world sees them. They are often high-functioning leaders in their work, family, or community, but struggle internally or in intimate relationships.
Most of my individual clients identify with one or more of these categories:
- People who appear to be doing well in their lives but grapple internally with self-worth, self-criticism, anxiety or shame.
- Adults who grew up in complicated and/or painful households and want to understand how these early attachment experiences impact how they relate to themself and others.
- Helping professionals, leaders or caregivers who want care and connection for themselves.
- People coping with romantic relationship distress.
- Empaths, sensitive people, big feelers who tend to absorb the feelings of others and/or get overwhelmed by their own emotions.
I describe myself as a relational therapist. I care deeply about the quality of the therapeutic relationship we form and I strive to make it safe, collaborative and supportive of your growth. I pay special attention to your inner world, but also to your experiences in relationships with others both past and present. You will feel me in the room when your joke cracks me up and when your pain touches my heart. Although it’s probably my humanity and my own years of therapy that make me a good therapist, I also like to know stuff and have done lots of training over the 23 years I’ve been doing this work. You can read more about my training and theoretical orientations here.