Wherever you find yourself—clear on what you want to work on, confused and unsure where to begin—I am happy to support you in your journey.

I work as a person-centered psychotherapist, and while this approach is transdiagnostic and works well with a variety of mental health challenges, here are some focus areas I have developed over the course of my practice:

Trauma

Post Traumatic Stress is characterized by intensely painful and scary life experiences that overwhelm our capacity to effectively respond and integrate them into our lives. In therapy, my approach to working with PTSD involves utilizing the strength of a compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship, and any relevant mindfulness practices, to support you to turn towards the memories, thoughts and emotions associated with the trauma in a way that allows them to be re-integrated into your life in a way that brings a greater sense of wholeness and freedom. This process moves at YOUR PACE, so you are not unnecessarily overwhelmed again and because each person’s traumatic experience and way of making meaning of it is unique to their own lives. 

Stress, Panic Attacks, and Anxiety

Anxiety is a natural part of the human experience that serves an important role, and nonetheless can become a limiting if not debilitating force in our pursuit to live rich and meaningful lives. In therapy, my approach to working with stress and anxiety involves utilizing the strength of a compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship, and any relevant mindfulness practices, to support you to relate to your experience of stress, anxiety, and/or panic attacks with a greater sense of self-acceptance and curiosity. Bringing this attitude to experiences of anxiety allows for the anxious and stressful thoughts and feelings to be less debilitating as well as for each person to glean the insights into what you deeply care about and how these values can inform your life. 

Grief/Loss

In life, we experience many kinds of loss; we lose partners, friends, careers, periods of our life, physical health, abilities, and ultimately our own lives. Because we care and get so much from all of these things, when we lose them there is a natural process of grieving that needs to take place. If we do not have the adequate resources, this process of grieving may be hindered and we may find ourselves unable to continue on with our lives in the way that we wish and find a meaningful way of understanding our loss. In therapy, my approach to working with grief involves utilizing the strength of a compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship, and any relevant mindfulness practices, to support you to turn towards and move through the thoughts and emotions associated with the grieving process and find a way of moving forward that adequately honors what was lost as well as what you would like to do with the rest of our life.

Depression

Sadness is a normal part of the human experience, yet at some times in many people's lives we find ourselves with a sense of bleak hopelessness that doesn’t seem to let up. This experience has come to be known as “depression” in the mental health field. In therapy, my approach to working with clients struggling with depression involves forming a compassionately attuned therapeutic relationship that then functions as a basis for bringing self-compassion and curiosity to the deeper layers of your experiences related to depression and exploring meaningful activities that bring more joy and satisfaction into your life.