My primary objective is to cultivate a safe, supportive, and understanding space for my clients. By consistently offering empathy and withholding judgment, I strive to ensure that everyone feels respected and valued throughout the therapeutic process.
I guide my clients in recognizing and embracing all of their thoughts and emotions. This acceptance allows individuals to connect with their authentic selves and fosters personal growth.
I am committed to truly listening to my clients’ stories, helping them explore the connections between their past experiences and present behaviors. Through this process, I introduce practical tools and strategies that empower clients to initiate meaningful change in their lives.
Approach
I work from an integrative perspective, which simply means I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to healing. By blending the insight of psychodynamic therapy with the active tools of behavioral change, we address both the roots of your struggles and the symptoms you face today. At the heart of it all is a relational focus: I believe the safety and trust we build together in our sessions becomes the very foundation for the changes you want to see in your life outside the room.
Psychodynamic therapy is built on the idea that our past—especially our earliest relationships and experiences—creates a “blueprint” for how we see ourselves and move through the world today. Much of our behavior, our moods, and the way we interact with others is influenced by unconscious patterns that we aren’t always aware of. If you feel like you are constantly hitting the same invisible walls or repeating the same painful cycles in your relationships, psychodynamic therapy offers a way to look beneath the surface to find out why. In our work together, we move beyond just managing symptoms to explore the deeper roots of your experience.
At its core, Relational Therapy is based on the belief that we are shaped by our connections with others—and that our greatest wounds, as well as our greatest healings, happen in the context of relationships. Many of the challenges that bring people to therapy, such as anxiety, low self-worth, or a sense of isolation, are often rooted in past experiences where our needs for safety and belonging weren’t fully met. In our sessions, we don’t just talk about your life; we use the “here-and-now” relationship between us as a safe laboratory to understand how you relate to yourself and the world around you. In a relational approach, I am not a “blank slate” or a distant observer. Instead, I show up as a real, empathetic human being.By experiencing a safe and transparent relationship in the therapy room, you begin to develop the internal security needed to foster deeper, more fulfilling connections in your life outside of it.
While psychodynamic and relational work help us understand the “why,” behavioral tools provide the “how” for navigating your daily life. These are active, skill-based approaches designed to help you change the way you respond to difficult thoughts, intense emotions, and stressful situations in real-time. By incorporating these tools, we move from just talking about change to actively practicing it
General Mental Health
Maintaining your mental health is just as vital as caring for your physical well-being, yet it often feels much harder to prioritize. Life transitions, chronic stress, or simply the weight of daily responsibilities can leave you feeling “off,” disconnected, or overwhelmed. You don’t need to be in a state of crisis to benefit from therapy; it is a space for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and a more intentional way of living. My practice is dedicated to helping you navigate the complexities of the human experience with greater clarity and resilience.
My practice is dedicated to helping individuals reclaim their lives from the grip of anxiety, depression, and OCD. I provide high-level support for complex challenges like self-injury and suicidal ideation, while also helping clients navigate relational hurdles and the inevitable stress of life transitions. Together, we will transform these difficulties into a foundation for resilience and long-term stability.
Areas of Specialization
Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphia
My practice focuses on supporting individuals who are coping with a range of eating disorders and body image issues, including body dysmorphia. Recovery from an eating disorder is a courageous journey of unlearning the belief that your value is tied to what you consume or how you look. Whether you are struggling with restrictive eating, bingeing, purging, or an obsessive preoccupation with “clean” eating, these behaviors often begin as a way to cope with overwhelming emotions or a need for control. My approach acknowledges that the eating disorder served a purpose in your life, while also recognizing the toll it has taken on your physical health, mental clarity, and relationships.I help clients navigate the challenges associated with these struggles, promoting a healthier relationship with food and their bodies.
Weight Bias and Diet Culture
In a world that often equates thinness with worth, the impact of weight bias and diet culture can leave deep, lasting wounds. If you have spent years feeling at war with your body, navigating the “shame cycle” of restrictive dieting, or facing medical gaslighting based on your size, please know that your struggles are valid and you are not alone. Our work together focuses on untangling your self-esteem from the scale and processing the systemic trauma of living in a culture that often fails to see the whole person. I am dedicated to assisting clients in their recovery from the harmful effects of diet culture and guiding them toward a place of body neutrality and acceptance.
Relational Trauma
Relational trauma often stems from experiences where the very people we looked to for safety, connection, or care ended up being the sources of pain, neglect, or betrayal. Whether these wounds formed in childhood with primary caregivers or later in life through toxic adult partnerships, they can leave you feeling hyper-vigilant, disconnected, or stuck in “people-pleasing” patterns that no longer serve you. In our work together, we focus on moving beyond simply surviving these experiences to rebuilding a sense of internal security and agency.
Anxiety and Depression
Living with anxiety and depression can often feel like being caught between two extremes: the exhausting “high alert” of constant worry and the heavy, isolating “low” of hopelessness. Whether you are struggling with a racing mind that won’t shut off at night or a sense of lethargy that makes even simple tasks feel insurmountable, these experiences can make you feel like a passenger in your own life. My goal is to provide a steady, non-judgmental space where we can untangle these feelings and help you regain your sense of balance and vitality