
Specialties
Sometimes the “problems” we bring to therapy are not problems after all. In fact, let's get curious together. I invite you to consider if the "problems" you may be seeking treatment for could in fact be messages from your truest, wisest self attempting to guide and align you and/or your relationship towards health and transformation. Whatever your background is, whatever your story is, I want to provide a safe, compassionate, and serene space for you to feel human in your experiences. You do not need to be alone with your pain, and you will not be alone in your healing.
Treatment Modalities
I use a variety of different humanistic and strength-based treatment modalities depending on what each client needs.
You can learn more about each of these strategies below:

Emotion Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
EFIT helps individuals connect with their internal emotional landscape. Our emotions serve as powerful guides for healing and growth. By exploring emotional patterns, physiological sensations, and the meaning given to experiences, individuals can process past hurts, strengthen self-worth, and build resilience. EFIT supports clients in establishing a healthy, vibrant, and secure connection with their individual self, thus allowing individuals to strengthen connections with others as well.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a powerfully transformative model that helps clients understand their internal family system, comprised of different “parts." Our "parts" ultimately serve to protect us while they can become burdened with pain and thus do not function to their greatest potential. Through curiosity and internal exploration, clients gain insight into their parts, as well as their parts' unmet needs. Clients discover the differences between their parts and their Core self, which is inherently present, calm, and wise. In reconnecting with the Core self, clients are able to heal their burdened parts while deepening the connection they have with themselves and others.

Murray Bowen’s Family Systems Theory
Murray Bowen’s family systems theory utilizes eight interlocking concepts to explore and understand family dynamics, including differentiation of self, triangles, nuclear family emotional process, emotional cutoff, sibling position, societal emotional process, and family projection process. This model explains how human beings are a product of their familial environment and how their behavior, emotional processes, and relational dynamics are impacted by multigenerational patterns of thinking and feeling. This model helps individuals and families to better understand and alter unhealthy patterns of interaction, to improve the ability to resolve conflict, and to build healthier and more resilient relationships within the family of origin.

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFCT)
EFCT highlights our innate need for connection- with ourselves and loved ones- and shows how secure bonds strengthen mental and physical well-being. By identifying and shifting negative interaction patterns, couples uncover core attachment needs and reduces distress. This process enhances communication, repairs relational wounds (including after crises like affairs), and fosters trust, intimacy, and love. EFCT helps individuals and couples build or restore secure, lasting connections.

Structural Family Therapy
Structural family therapy is a therapeutic approach that views the family as a system with structure and interactional patterns. SFT specifically explores a family’s boundaries, hierarchies, subsystems, and/or coalitions through a family map. Furthermore, SFT explores how these systemic elements impact individual and family functioning. Through joining and engaging with the family system, a therapist can provide guidance regarding dysfunctional interactions and patterns of communications. SFT helps to promote healthier, positive, and lasting changes amongst familial patterns and relationships.

Polyvagal Theory
The Polyvagal Theory helps clients understand how our nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection. Through improving the connection we have with our nervous system, we are better able to identify if and when we are in a ventral, sympathetic, or dorsal state. Increased awareness of physiological sensations allow us to integrate tools and techniques to calm the body, regulate emotions, and cultivate deeper feelings of safety and connection to ourselves and others.

Experiential Therapy
Experiential Therapy uses hands-on, creative, and immersive activities to help clients explore emotions, behavioral patterns, and relationship dynamics. By engaging in new interactive experiences in a safe and supportive environment, experiential work supports self-discovery, healing, and personal growth in a meaningful and memorable way.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a practical, goal-oriented approach that helps clients gain insight into how our thoughts impact our emotions and behaviors. CBT helps clients to recognize and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which ultimately helps to improve one's overall mood. By learning new skills and perspectives, CBT empowers clients to reduce distress, build resilience, and create lasting positive change.

Somatic Experiencing
SE is a body-based approach to healing trauma and stress that has been stored in the body. Physiological sensations are identified and explored, which helps to release stored tension, restore nervous system balance, and support a greater sense of safety, serenity, and resilience.

Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy helps clients to separate personal identity from struggle. NT helps clients to explore the stories they tell themselves about their lives, as our internal dialogue impacts our life experiences. By reframing and rewriting scripts that do not benefit a client, clients can gain clarity, empowerment, and create a life that aligns with their values and truth.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a scientifically proven treatment model that helps the brain reprocess traumatic experiences so that these past experiences no longer feel overwhelming and/or debilitating in the present moment. By gently and safely accessing these memories, EMDR supports healing, reduces emotional distress, and fosters a greater sense of serenity and resiliency.

Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of being open and present, without judgment, to life experiences occurring in the here-and-now. By gently focusing on the present moment, mindfulness helps to reduce stress, increase self-awareness, and foster greater calm, clarity, and connection.
