How I work
My work style is relational and depth-oriented. I pay close attention to how safety and trust develop over time, and I bring warmth and containment into the therapeutic relationship.
Therapy with me is paced in a way that allows for thoughtful exploration and integration, even when you arrive feeling overwhelmed or at a turning point.
I focus on both emotional depth and the relational patterns that shape your experience. I’m interested in helping you understand how certain ways of coping formed, and how they continue to show up in your life now, rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction. Therapy is collaborative, and I’m here to support you in finding clarity and learning to trust yourself.
The frameworks I draw from
NARM — NeuroAffective Relational Model
When we’re young, we learn to adapt in order to belong and survive. We might shrink, accommodate, or disconnect from parts of ourselves. NARM helps you understand the function those adaptations are still playing in your life today, and creates the conditions for your authentic self to begin expressing itself more fully.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting works with the body’s natural ability to process and release what’s been held beneath the surface. It's a gentle, powerful tool for working with trauma, emotional blocks, and experiences that are hard to reach through talk alone.
DBT-informed
I’m trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and draw on it when it’s helpful, particularly around emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and navigating difficult relationships.
Specialties
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The ways we learn to survive early in life often stay with us long after they stop serving us. When love, safety, or belonging felt uncertain, you may have learned to shape yourself around what was needed from you, stay hyper-aware of others, overperform, or disconnect from your own needs in order to stay connected and protected.
Those strategies are not failures. They are intelligent adaptations. But over time, they can create exhaustion, disconnection, and patterns that no longer fit the life you want. Therapy helps you understand where those patterns came from so you can relate to yourself with more compassion and more choice.
Developmental trauma, attachment wounds, childhood emotional neglect, survival patterns
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Sometimes from the outside, it looks like you're doing fine. You're capable, responsible, and the person others rely on. But underneath that competence, there may be exhaustion, resentment, anxiety, or a quiet sense that you've lost touch with yourself.
You may be managing everything while feeling emotionally flat, chronically overwhelmed, or unsure what you actually want. Together, we make space to understand what survival has been asking from you and what it might mean to live differently.
Burnout, perfectionism, emotional numbness, chronic stress
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Sometimes the same dynamic keeps showing up in different forms. You overextend, avoid conflict, struggle to set boundaries, or find yourself in relationships where your needs disappear. You may understand the pattern intellectually and still feel stuck inside it.
These patterns are rarely random. They often reflect old survival strategies, attachment wounds, and deeply learned beliefs about love, safety, and worth. Therapy helps you slow the pattern down, understand what keeps it in place, and begin choosing something different.
People-pleasing, codependency, boundary issues, conflict avoidance
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Many people learn early to prioritize being needed, accepted, or safe over being fully themselves. Over time, that can create distance from your own instincts, emotions, and needs. You may know how to take care of everyone else while feeling unsure how to listen to yourself without guilt.
Therapy can help you reconnect with your own voice, not the one shaped by survival, obligation, or old relational roles, but the one underneath it. The work is often less about becoming someone new and more about learning how to trust who you already are.
Self-doubt, boundary struggles, loss of self
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Therapy can help you reconnect with your own voice, not the one shaped by survival, obligation, or old relational roles, but the one underneath it. The work is often less about becoming someone new and more about learning how to trust who you already are.
Self-doubt, boundary struggles, loss of self
Living in a body that the world misreads, diminishes, or targets takes a toll that therapy needs to be able to hold and name.
Racial stress and trauma, LGBTQ+ experiences, cultural identity, and the pressure of navigating systems that were not built with you in mind all shape the nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. Therapy should make room for that reality rather than treating it like background noise.
Racial stress and trauma, LGBTQ+ experiences, cultural identity
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There are moments in life when the roles, relationships, or identities that once held everything together no longer fit. A career change, loss, illness, parenthood, aging, grief, or simply the realization that the life you built no longer feels like your own can create both uncertainty and possibility.
These transitions often bring old patterns to the surface. Therapy can help you make sense of what is changing, tolerate the discomfort of not having immediate answers, and choose what comes next with more intention and self-trust.
Life transitions, grief, career change, identity shifts, major decisions
My practice is open to all. And I particularly welcome BIPOC women, LGBTQ+ clients, secular people, and those who have spent time making themselves smaller to fit into spaces that weren't designed with them in mind.
I aim to create a space that can hold complexity. A space that makes room for the parts of you that have had to work the hardest to survive.