Navigate pressure and expectation to find balance in your relationships and yourself.

You want to better understand yourself and your relationships so that you may show up more fully and authentically. You are curious how your past connects to your present problems, and why certain narratives repeat themselves. You want interpersonal interactions to feel less complicated at work, at home, and with friends. You are tired of trying so hard to analyze and figure out your part in these relationships to no avail. You want to find the right solution, but in doing so end up feeling isolated.

In our work together, I will help you process these dynamics and relationship patterns so that you can gain insight and feel more empowered and grounded in your relationships. You already have a keen sense of awareness—our work will help you further connect with yourself and your emotional patterns and triggers that are more elusive.

As a psychodynamically oriented therapist, I listen on many levels for what is troubling you and connect any potential patterns I am hearing to effect long-term change and healing. I also may point to things that stand out to me, but might otherwise pass you by. This experience can feel foreign at first, but I’ve found that as I inquire about what I am hearing, you will also increase your capacity to listen to what is going on inside you. Together, we will discover more and more what is happening under the surface for you that contributes to automatic behaviors, responses, and relational patterns. Through trauma-informed, relational therapy, I will work with you to ground in your experience, identify what is happening for you in a difficult moment, and explore ways to create more space and comfort within yourself, and satisfaction in your relationships.

 
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My Approach

Trauma-informed therapy acknowledges that we have all experienced suffering. And this history has shaped how we cope and respond to similar or difficult stressors. By acknowledging and making space for the pain you’ve endured, and your resilience, as well as recognizing external or systemic impacts, we can begin to understand and empathize with the self-protective measures that were once, consciously or unconsciously, put into place, but may not serve you anymore.

Culturally-attuned therapy: I also think a lot about identity and systems of power and privilege, how they impact our experience in the world, and our ability to be fully or accurately seen, or not. I work in an ongoing way around social justice to acknowledge, understand, and question participation in these systems in the world and in my practice, and welcome looking at how these factors shape your experiences, who you are, and how you are able or unable to show up completely and authentically, including in the room with me.

 
 

In our work together, I will take your lead. My therapeutic style involves honest, engaged exchange that aims for mutuality. While the focus of our work will be on you, I acknowledge that I am another person in the room, and not a blank slate. I work from a relational perspective, which means that I look to our relationship and what is happening between us as a point of entry for understanding and healing. I will hold space in our sessions with care, regard, and cultural and emotional attunement, and, when warranted, I will intervene with earnest curiosity and respectful confrontation in service of you and the therapy.

 
 
 

I work with young adults and adults on:

  • Anxiety/Stress

  • Communication (e.g. boundaries, assertiveness)

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Family Dynamics/Conflict (e.g. parentification, enmeshment, volatility)

  • Identity Work (e.g. individuation, purpose, racial, cultural, gender, sexual, etc.)

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness

  • Life Transitions

  • Loss/Grief

  • Marriage/Pre-marital Issues/Divorce

  • Oppression (e.g. structural, cultural, racial, systemic)

  • Parenting

  • Pregnancy/Fertility & Postpartum

  • Professional/Career Issues (e.g. work-life balance, burnout/fatigue)

  • Recent College/High School Graduate Issues

  • Relationship & Intimacy Issues (i.e. romantic and non-romantic)

  • Self-esteem, Self-criticism, & Perfectionism

  • Sobriety/Recovery

  • Transition Aged Youth Issues

  • Trauma (e.g. relational, historical, developmental, intergenerational)

  • Womxn’s Issues

  • Young Professional Issues

 
How do I get started?
Click on the Schedule a Session button or Contact page to schedule a phone consultation or first session.
What happens next?
If we’re a good-enough fit to start, we’ll find a time that works with our ongoing schedules to meet weekly for our 50 minute sessions. For more information head to the Getting Started page.
How do I know if you are the right therapist for me?
Studies have found that 80% of the positive outcome of therapy is due to the therapeutic relationship; a strong client-therapist bond is the main predictor of success, more than a particular technical approach or modality. So it really depends on how comfortable you feel with me. It usually takes 3-4 sessions to begin to build rapport and determine if we are a good fit. Should you decide that you would like to work with someone else at that point, I will readily provide with you with referrals tailored to what you are looking for.
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