ALL parts of you are welcome with me. I believe we are innately wired for healing, especially when we are able to face our pain in the caring witness of another. We will get to know all these parts of you together in order to help them find new ways of being. My role is to be with you in the hard places, to help undo your aloneness, and to support you in listening to the quiet wisdom of your body—wisdom that may have needed to hide in order to cope or survive. When we bring light to these parts through gentle attention and care, they can begin to offer growth.

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At the heart of my work is a commitment to de‑pathologizing your experience and supporting you in learning to trust your own inner knowing. While the approaches I draw from are tailored to you unique needs, you will find my approach experiential, relational / attachment-based, somatic (body-focused), trauma-informed, and rooted in modern neuroscience.

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What is a relational therapist?

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In our sessions, I am far more than a passive observer. As a relational therapist, I step into the work alongside you, offering my genuine self rather than a distant professional mask. I will actively engage with you, sharing my observations and what I am feeling in the room as we interact.  I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but I come with open curiosity and authentic reflection. I trust that honest, attuned connection can be deeply healing, and empower you to decide what is right for you in the therapy room and know that you always have a choice with me. I believe our therapeutic bond isn’t just a backdrop—it is a vital, living part of the healing process itself.

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What is experiential therapy?

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This means that I approach therapy using a bottom-up healing process, where clients first notice and experience new or previously ignored bodily sensations and emotions (bottom), then bring those to awareness and create new insights (up). This allows clients to not simply walk away with skills to use at home, but to actually have a different or new experience with themselves, full of joy and acceptance, that extends from inside therapy to their external world. This is effective because our brain reacts and stores memories based on our threat response, emotions, and felt connection in a different part of our brain (bottom-brain) than the one used for logic and insight (top-brain).

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I may also draw on expressive therapies, such as art, sand tray, and movement, always guided by your comfort level. Humans experience the world in images and felt sense from the time they are born. Memories, especially ones from childhood or ones holding big emotions, are also stored in this way. Simply talking is not always helpful or possible at times as a result. Therefore utilizing these other means of expression and processing can be effective. This again allows a bottom-up healing process as described above. 

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What modalities do I use?

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My work is guided by current, research-based approaches grounded in attachment theory, trauma research, interpersonal neurobiology, and affective neuroscience. My trainings in the areas below reflect this, and are woven into our work through a trauma-informed, client-centered lens