Every person has the potential for robust emotional health and rich, fulfilling relationships. How do I help you get there? My approach is rooted in two primary orientations. Trained as a couples and family therapist, I help my clients understand how family of origin dynamics, attachment patterns, and past trauma currently affect your life and well being. Understanding how your past shows up in your present makes it easy to identify coping strategies and patterns of behavior that no longer serve you.

Emotions are wired in, adaptive processes that offer rich information about who
we are and what we want. Experiencing them in supported, mindful new ways is what creates and sustains lasting change.

Using experiential therapy, we resolve core issues and create pathways for healing and transformation. It’s important to understand the past but it’s even more important to seize the present. I’m an experiential, attachment based therapist. That means I help you grasp how unconscious, wired in responses and expectations are impacting your life and relationships. Unlike more traditional therapeutic models, our focus will be on your emotional processes in the present moment. Together, we’ll identify what’s getting in your way so you can access your inherent healing potential. This process is creative and takes many forms. What you’ll get is a new and powerful emotional tool box that allows you to flexibly respond to challenges, embody a new sense of freedom, and create the life you want. 

I work well with clients who like my direct style and use of humor. I am a warm and empathic therapist. I’m also a therapist who believes honesty and open communication are essential components of effective therapy. At the core of my approach is a commitment to forming a real and trusting relationship with every one of my clients.