I provide psychotherapy for adolescents, emerging adults, college students, and adults. I especially enjoy working with women, mothers, and new parents learning to navigate the challenges of parenthood. I most often work with individuals experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, anxious arousal and dysregulation, and relationship challenges.

The support I offer aims to match each of my client’s unique needs. My overall clinical framework incorporates acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), polyvagal theory, family systems, attachment theory, and emotion coaching support. I understand that each person experiences the world through their unique brain-body system and believe that wellbeing stems from reliable connection, trust, and validation within our most important relationships. I support clients to strengthen their underlying foundation of emotional safety and to find meaningful connection within their relationships, self, and ongoing experiences.

I also recognize that our analyzing human minds can generate inner distress and avoidance tendencies if we consistently try to “fix” or problem solve our unpleasant emotions away. With practice, we can learn to make contact with all the feelings to show up, which can help us learn to flow through unpleasant emotions rather than get stuck in the “mud.” Learning to be in our emotional discomfort, rather than avoid it, can open up opportunities to grow and to adjust the ways we approach the challenges in our daily lives.

Overall, my work aims to support clients to attune to their brain-body experience and to cultivate greater psychological flexibility. Together, we can help you cultivate greater capacity to flow through inner discomfort and emotional pain so you can fully engage in your life. We can help you notice what “shows up” in your experience without judgement, to bring psychological flexibility to the challenges you face, and to identify and practice the behaviors that move you toward who and what is most meaningful to you.