“The therapeutic relationship itself is the vehicle
for change.”
-Irv Yalom
Individual Therapy
My approach is to explore what you're going through as a doorway into a fuller understanding of who you are. Instead of just managing a problem, I help you get curious about what your emotions, dreams, and inner experiences are trying to tell you. By making space for the parts of yourself that have been overlooked or pushed aside, we uncover hidden pieces of your story. Once seen, these aren't just wounds anymore. They become sources of insight and a solid foundation for real growth.
Key Elements of Individual Therapy
In our sessions, we create a safe space to explore not just your words, but also the feelings, images, and stories that arise. We might look at recurring dreams, creative expressions, body sensations, or the way patterns repeat in your relationships. This process honors the complexity of the human experience and acknowledges that our most difficult challenges often hold the seed for our greatest transformation.
Who Benefits From Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy is ideal for those who feel called to go beyond "quick fixes" and seek a more meaningful, integrative path forward. It is particularly helpful for those navigating profound grief, identity questions, or spiritual crises. It also serves those with long-standing emotional blocks that haven't responded to other methods. It is a journey toward wholeness, where every part of your experience is welcomed and understood.
Trauma Informed Therapy
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) starts from the understanding that we're all wired for connection. When our early relationships or environments let us down in some way, we naturally develop strategies to survive and protect ourselves. Those strategies made sense at the time — but later in life, they can get in the way of connecting authentically with ourselves and the people around us. Over time, these patterns settle into both our body (how our nervous system regulates) and our sense of who we are.
Key Elements of NARM
NARM works with both the mind and the body together, rather than treating them as separate. Instead of focusing on why you developed certain patterns, this approach explores how those early survival strategies show up for you today, and how they may be getting in the way of feeling connected to yourself and others in the present.
Through mindful awareness, you learn to recognize and work with five developmental life themes that shape your capacity for self-regulation and connection. The process honors the fact that these survival strategies made sense given what you went through, while supporting movement toward greater vitality and authenticity beyond what may have previously imagined.
Who Benefits from NARM?
This approach is especially helpful for individuals who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), complex trauma, or attachment wounds. It supports those navigating long-standing emotional blocks, difficulties with self-worth, trust, or intimacy, and anyone seeking to transform entrenched patterns into a more integrated, authentic sense of self.
NARM fits well alongside other evidence-based treatments and is particularly valuable for people who want to address trauma at both the physiological (body) and psychological (mind) levels without becoming overwhelmed by reliving past events.
Couples and Family Therapy
My approach to couples and family therapy is grounded in understanding your relationship as it is today, and how it came to be that way. Rather than telling you what your relationship should look like, I help you explore the patterns and history that have shaped where things stand now.
Together, we look at how opposing forces, like dependence and independence, thinking and feeling, structure and spontaneity, create both tension and opportunity for growth in your relationship. By working through these dynamics with awareness and intention, you can build a deeper, more authentic connection, both with yourselves individually and with each other.
Key Elements of Couples and Family Therapy
What Shows Up Between You
Your interactions in session can become windows into deeper relational patterns. By exploring these dynamics together, you gain insight into how your own histories shape what you expect and how you respond within the relationship.
Integration of Opposites
This approach encourages you to hold space for contradictory needs—connection and independence, vulnerability and strength—without forcing either side to surrender. This creates room for both of you to remain true to yourselves while deepening intimacy.
Who Benefits from Couples and Family Therapy?
This approach is well-suited for couples and families navigating long-standing conflicts, feeling stuck in repetitive cycles, or seeking a more meaningful, conscious partnership beyond conventional problem-solving. It aligns closely with depth-oriented modalities and supports those interested in the psychological and spiritual dimensions of relationship life.
