Specialties

Where people usually start with me

People rarely arrive with a diagnosis in mind. They arrive with a week that has stopped working. These are the areas I spend most of my time in, and each page is written about what that particular kind of stuck actually feels like from the inside.

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Core Areas

Read the one that sounds like your life

If more than one fits, that is normal, and it does not change where we begin. We start with whatever is loudest.

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Anxiety Therapy

For the racing mind at two in the morning, the tight chest before a meeting, and the constant scanning for what might go wrong. We start with what interrupts it this week, then look at what has been feeding it for years.

Trauma Therapy

For experiences that still arrive in the present as though they were happening now. We go at a pace your nervous system can tolerate, building steadiness first so the processing has something to rest on.

Couples Therapy

For the argument that always ends the same way and the distance that grew without either of you deciding on it. Using Gottman and EFIT Level 1, we slow the cycle down enough to see what each of you is actually asking for.

EMDR Therapy

For memories that talking about has not touched. EMDR helps the brain finish processing an event so it loses its charge, and it often works when years of insight have not shifted the feeling.

Codependency

For the person who knows everyone else's needs and cannot name their own. We work on where your responsibility actually ends, and what it takes to say no without a week of guilt afterward.

Stress and Burnout

For the exhaustion that a weekend no longer fixes. We look at the load itself, not just your tolerance for it, and rebuild recovery into a week that has stopped including any.

Next-Level Performance

For people who are already doing well and know something is in the way. This is focused work on the internal patterns that cap what you can sustain, rather than what you can achieve in a sprint.

Thirteen more places people start

Narrower pages for the specific thing you typed into a search bar at eleven at night. Each one is written about that particular experience rather than about therapy in general.

High-Functioning Anxiety

For the person whose calendar, career, and family all run on time while the inside of the day never stops humming. We work on the engine underneath the competence, not the competence itself.

Panic Attacks

Panic is a body event before it is a thought, which is why reasoning with it rarely lands. We work with the physical alarm directly, then with the fear of the alarm itself.

Social Anxiety

For the person who runs the meeting well and dreads the drinks afterward. We use behavioral experiments to test what you believe people are thinking, rather than practicing exposure for its own sake.

Perfectionism and Overthinking

Overthinking is not a character flaw, it is a strategy that once worked. We meet the part of you that keeps the standard, find out what it is afraid of, and negotiate rather than fight.

PTSD

PTSD is not only what people picture. It follows accidents, assaults, medical events, and long stretches of unsafety. We stabilize first, then process at a pace your system can hold.

Childhood Trauma

For adults raised in homes that looked fine and did not feel safe. Emotional neglect and the skills you built to survive it are usually the material, not one dramatic event.

Depression

The version I see most often is not in bed at noon. It is meeting every deadline and feeling nothing about any of it. We work on flatness, irritability, and sleep that does not restore.

Dating

For people who keep meeting the same person in a different body. We look at what your system reads as chemistry, and why it so often turns out to be familiarity.

Attachment and Relationship Patterns

The four attachment styles explained without jargon, and the honest part: naming yours changes very little on its own. Earned security is built through experience, not information.

Infidelity and Betrayal

For the person who found out, and for the couple deciding what happens now. Available as individual work or couples work, with no assumption about which ending is right.

Divorce and Breakups

The support tends to arrive in the first month and disappear before the hard part. We work on grief with no ritual, co-parenting with someone you are angry at, and the empty weekends.

Life Transitions

Promotions, moves, new babies, and careers you built and no longer want. Values-based work for the periods when the map you were using stops matching the terrain.

Grief and Loss

For grief that does not match the schedule other people expect, including losses that were not deaths. We do not work in stages and we do not aim at closure.

Not sure where to start? A conversation is a good place to begin.

The free 15-minute consult is a short, no-pressure call to hear what is going on and decide together, gently, whether working with me is the right fit.

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