My goal as your therapist is to provide a safe, compassionate, and collaborative space where we work together to understand not only what is causing distress today, but also the deeper patterns that may be keeping you stuck. I help people heal from trauma, better understand themselves, and create lasting changes in the emotional, behavioral, and relational patterns that interfere with living the life they want to live.

 

Many of the struggles that bring people to therapy, including anxiety, depression, perfectionism, relationship difficulties, shame, self-criticism, and emotional overwhelm, develop for understandable reasons. Often, they represent ways we learned to adapt to difficult experiences, relationships, or environments. While these strategies may have once been necessary, they can eventually become barriers to growth, connection, and well-being. Therapy provides an opportunity to understand these patterns with curiosity and compassion, heal the wounds that created them, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others.

 

My work integrates evidence-based and experiential approaches, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Schema Therapy, and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). While each approach offers a different pathway to healing, they share a common goal: helping people process unresolved experiences, access their innate strengths and resilience, and create meaningful, lasting change.

 

I am a Certified EMDR Therapist and Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist. EMDR is the primary trauma therapy I use and helps people process experiences that continue to create emotional, psychological, or physical distress in the present. My approach to EMDR incorporates attachment, somatic awareness, and an understanding of how developmental and cultural experiences shape the healing process. I have also completed training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and often integrate body-based interventions to help clients work with the physical effects of trauma and chronic stress.

 

IFS is a compassionate, non-pathologizing approach that helps people develop a deeper understanding of the different parts of themselves. Through this process, clients often experience greater self-compassion, emotional freedom, and the ability to respond to life’s challenges from a place of confidence and clarity rather than reactivity.

 

I have also completed training in Schema Therapy, an integrative approach that helps people identify and change longstanding patterns that developed in response to unmet emotional needs, difficult relationships, or painful life experiences. Schema Therapy can be particularly helpful for people who find themselves repeating the same struggles despite understanding them intellectually.

 

In addition, I provide various Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBTs) for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and PTSD when helpful. 

 

I take an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and LGBTQIA+-affirming approach to therapy and strive to create a space where all aspects of your identity are welcomed and respected. I also have a background in religious studies and am happy to incorporate spiritual or religious beliefs into treatment when they are important to you.