How I Work As a Therapist

Developing acceptance, compassion, and kindness toward ourselves is a lifelong practice. The person we speak to the most in our lives is ourselves, so it’s worth pausing to notice what those conversations sound like. In my work, I help clients recognize their strengths, make room for the full, messy truth of who they are, and move toward greater congruence. By exploring the stories we carry about ourselves—and where they came from—we can begin to rewrite them in a way that feels more accurate, more humane, and more hopeful.

Change is often nonlinear and happens once we've let go and exhausted all the possible ways that we can hang on to the way things were.  This means meeting clients at their current state of change and helping them cultivate the space for positive growth to happen. I work from a strengths-based approach working collaboratively with clients to re-author their stories and strive for the positive changes they are seeking.

I work with both individual clients and couples.  While I have certain clinical areas of focus that I enjoy, I very much like being a “generalist.”  I help many clients with their relationships and relational struggles, phase of life changes, transitions, grief, depression/anxiety, struggles with sleep/insomnia, overall well being, and addiction and recovery work.

Being in private practice I have the privilege of working with a wide variety of clients, presenting concerns, age groups, and demographics.  As a therapist I feel this keeps me engaged in a full range of clinic work and “the human experience.”  Almost all of my clients are adults 18+ and I work with clients across the lifecycle.  Some clients I see for a few sessions and others I have been working with for several years.