Welcome, I’m glad you’re here.

My goal is to create a compassionate, curious, open-minded, and judgment-free space where we can understand you and create the change you desire. In that space you are welcome to come as you are – to be “messy,” raw, uncertain; to struggle with stuckness; to grieve what you’ve lost or never had; to be with frustration or longing for things to be different; to have hope and imagine thriving; or to just be.

About therapy with me.

I treat you as the driver in your therapy and trust your intuition and ultimate expertise on yourself and what’s best for you. I accompany you as a partner who witnesses you and brings questions, observations, and ideas that encourage exploration, reflection, awareness, and self-knowledge.

My approach as a therapist is informed by my training in existential therapy and also weaves together aspects of various theoretical sensibilities, including:

• Person-centered and relational, meaning I believe wholeheartedly in your worthiness and your innate capacity to understand yourself and grow. I view therapy as a collaborative experience where our relationship is a key ingredient for change. I will bring curiosity to what is happening in the moment within you and between us, and will support you to use your own intuition to drive discussion and uncover insights.

• Psychodynamic, meaning I find it valuable to understand present challenges in light of past experiences. We will discover feelings, beliefs, fears, wishes, and thought processes that live in unconscious parts of you, and work to understand how they drive present challenges, patterns, and cycles of stuckness. This involves, among other things, exploring impactful experiences, particularly from early in life. We may also explore dreams, imagination, imagery, and metaphor.

• Existential, meaning I believe there are core concerns that underpin the experience of being human, including our relationship to freedom, responsibility, and choice; awareness of death; and a need for belonging, purpose, and meaning. We will consider how your current experience may be bound up with these themes and how you can find meaning and thrive despite the anxiety and struggle they provoke.

My hope is that working together can offer you:

• A space to breathe  and find relief from the intense culture of productivity, achievement, perfectionism, and judgment in our world. I care deeply about you having a place where you don’t have to perform. We’ll loosen the grips of paradigms like right-wrong, achieve-fail, broken-fixed, true-false, and good-bad, and discover pathways for greater freedom, self-acceptance, meaning, and choice for you.

• A process that holds you as human. We won’t treat what’s “wrong with you.” Distress isn’t a mere function of individual pathology; it’s always connected to the world it emerges from. We’ll understand experiences like anxiety through a lens of what it means to be a person in this world, both holding this as a natural part of being alive and discovering ways to thrive despite it.

• An opportunity to really know yourself. We can understand what you value and what has influenced and shaped you, helping you have more trust and confidence in yourself, feel more grounded in the face of anxiety and life challenges, and find more connection in relationships.