Areas of Focus
Research findings continue to validate the notion that healthy relationships are the primary key to happiness and longevity. Whether you're navigating conflict with a partner, family member, or friend — or noticing a recurring pattern across relationships — therapy is a space to understand what's happening and try something different.
The ultimate question is, 'how (if at all) are your past experiences affecting you in the present?' Trauma is not always what happened; it is what your nervous system carried forward from what happened. Together we work carefully — often using insight therapy, somatic tools, the therapeutic relationship, and if appropriate, EMDR — to help you feel steadier in your own body and emotions, and in charge of your own story.
Coping with and exploring concerns and/or questions around sexual orientation and gender identity requires a safe place. My practice is affirming, curious, and grounded — a place where you don't have to educate others on who you are in your body, before you can begin the real work. Together we will navigate any complex emotions or challenges that may arise – at a pace that works for you - getting you more comfortable in your own skin and loving of who you are.
When we feel stuck and heavy, or out of control and on edge to an extent that we are unable to enjoy the things that we used to, something deeper may need to be addressed. Symptoms are often the top of a much larger conversation about how you've learned to be in the world.
Mood can shift in ways that feel bigger than the moment — long stretches of heaviness, waves of energy and crash, or a low hum that never quite lifts. Depression, bipolar-spectrum experiences, and persistent low mood each have their own texture, and each deserves a careful, individualized look. Together we work to understand what's underneath the pattern — biology, story, relationships, and the ways you've learned to cope — and to build steadier ground day to day. My goal is not to flatten your feelings but to help you live with them in a way that is workable, meaningful, and yours.
Non-visible, unseen, invisible, or hidden disabilities encompass a wide range of chronic and sometimes unpredictable illnesses, including epilepsy, diabetes, chronic pain, long-COVID, POTS, and many others. Living with something others can't see is exhausting in its own right, and can create its own unique and very real trauma and grief. This is a space where you don't have to justify what you're carrying, and why you live your life the way that you do.
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