Approach

People seek therapy for many reasons. Sometimes the effort to manage things on your own comes at too high a cost, or you may feel stuck at an impasse and need the clarity that therapy can provide. In the work we do together, you can expand your ability to be present with the full breadth of your experience and release patterns that no longer serve you. By tending to your most vulnerable parts, you create space to access more joy, deepen connection to yourself and others, and live more fully into what you envision for your life.

I draw from relational, psychodynamic, somatic, attachment, trauma-informed, and transpersonal frameworks, as well as my post-graduate training. Each offers a lens for understanding experience and facilitating change. I interweave these different persepctives with my own personalized approach for each client.

  • Somatics approaches in therapy involve an array of modalities that work with the psyche and body. Somatic methods may help you to drop into a deeper sense of your lived experience. Through exploring the intersection of body and mind, you may become aware of patterns that no longer serve you, while also deepening your connection to what you love.

    Somatic work can be powerful in facilitating access to deeper parts of yourself that are often difficult to hear or tend to amid the demands of daily life. These demands can make it challenging to sustain an embodied way of being. Therapeutic spaces can be important places to cultivate the deeper wisdom and grounding that somatic awareness offers.

    Sometimes I use somatic methods to help people learn more ways of soothing themselves in times of distress, drawing from trauma-informed approaches. I also may incorporate a somatic approach to help you deepen, unlock, and work with unconscious material related to the concerns you bring into the therapy. Sometimes people are surprised by what they find when they access images, feelings, and thoughts held in the body. Previously veiled landscapes within the body can bridge concrete sensory experiences with imaginal and emotional realms.

    I don’t currently incorporate touch as a somatic therapy method. Our work remains primarily talk-based, though I may guide you in various ways to explore the body–mind connection related to what you are working through. Breathwork, guided visualization, movement, and more, are potential avenues for exploration. Somatic approaches are offered only when you express an interest or openness to exploring in these ways.

  • Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand the deeper patterns behind your feelings, behaviors, and relationship dynamics. By noticing what shows up in your current life and tracing its roots in earlier experiences, we bring unconscious themes into awareness. This insight creates space for meaningful and lasting change, rather than short-term symptom relief alone.

    While the past is not the sole focus, earlier experiences are understood as offering important context for how you see yourself and navigate the world today. Developing a more integrated awareness of these connections can loosen old constraints and support the changes you’re seeking.

  • Relational therapy is grounded in the understanding that we come to know ourselves and make meaning of our experiences through our relationships. Because many of our deepest wounds develop in relationship, healing can also unfold most powerfully within a safe and attuned relational space. As a relational therapist, I help you notice and work through the patterns that have emerged from your relational history and continue to shape how you connect with others today.

    I also invite you to bring attention to what arises within the therapeutic relationship itself. Feelings that surface here may be influenced by past experiences, hopes, fears, disappointments, or expectations. Rather than avoiding these moments, we make room for them to be named, understood, and worked through together in a way that can support repair and new ways of relating, and at a pace that reflects your readiness.

  • Attachment-oriented therapy is informed by attachment theory, which describes how our earliest caregivers shape the ways we learn to give and receive care, seek closeness, and respond to emotional needs. Over time, these early experiences can lead to recognizable “attachment styles,” such as feeling generally secure in relationships, tending to worry about being rejected or abandoned, or becoming distant or highly self-reliant when closeness feels uncomfortable. These patterns are not fixed labels or diagnoses. They are understandable strategies the nervous system developed to help you stay connected and safe.

    In our work together, we may explore how these attachment patterns show up in your current relationships and within the therapy space itself. The goal is not to judge or erase these strategies, but to understand them with compassion and to support the development of greater flexibility, security, and choice in how you relate to others and to yourself.

  • In our work together, we move at a pace that honors your readiness and sense of safety. Rather than pushing into painful material before you’re prepared, we focus first on developing resources that help you stay grounded and present, so that any exploration of past experiences can happen in a way that feels supportive and manageable.

    Within this approach, I incorporate somatic resourcing methods to help you learn how to regulate your nervous system while still making space to process painful or unresolved experiences when the timing feels right. Together, we’ll gently notice when fight, flight, or freeze responses arise and work collaboratively with them, rather than pushing past or overriding them.

    I have received training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and EMDR, both of which are evidence-based approaches for treating trauma and PTSD. While I don’t currently offer either modality as a standalone treatment, each significantly informs my integrative, personalized approach to our work.

  • Many people find that spiritual or symbolic practices such as astrology, tarot, ancestral work, ritual, or dream exploration provide powerful and potent ways of understanding their inner world. Some may also engage in spiritually informed embodiment practices, and have experiences that may include spiritual awakenings, non-ordinary states of consciousness, or forms of sacred sexuality. I am comfortable and experienced in working with transpersonal experiences when they are requested and relevant to your therapeutic process.

    I can help you explore these practices as symbolic mirrors that illuminate psychological patterns, inner conflicts, and potential directions for growth. This work is always guided by your personal spiritual practices and interests. I do not offer instruction, advice, or insert my own practices into your healing process. The work is client-led, and my role is to help you reflect on and relate your transpersonal experiences back to the psychological patterns you are exploring.

    My approach is informed by depth and transpersonal psychology, drawing on influences such as Carl Jung and Stanislav & Christina Grof.