Psychotherapy

In therapy, we’ll explore how your past experiences and relationships shape the way you respond to life today. The patterns we carry from earlier years can affect how we handle emotions, communicate, and navigate challenges. By understanding these influences, we can begin to shift what no longer serves you and help you build on the strengths you’ve developed along the way.

We’ll also look at the different ways you’ve learned to cope, as well as the parts of yourself shaped by past experiences. These aspects, whether protective or tied to old wounds, may sometimes lead to patterns that don’t align with what you truly need. Therapy offers space to bring these pieces into balance, helping you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Beyond addressing challenges, therapy is an opportunity to reconnect with what matters most to you. Together, we’ll clarify your values and goals, and help you make choices that reflect your authentic self. By integrating all parts of who you are and drawing on your existing strengths, you’ll be better equipped to navigate life with more self-awareness, emotional resilience, and balance.

I work with adult individuals in areas such as:

• Anxiety and stress (fear, worry, ruminating, nervousness, panic, phobias, and bodily tension)
• Depression and mood (hopelessness, emptiness, self-worth, and despair)
• Anger, Irritability, Self-Criticism.
• Trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder, complex trauma; recent or past trauma; dissociation and dissociative disorders)
• Guilt and Shame
• Family of Origin Issues
• Life Transitions, Grief and Loss (divorce, death, job loss, and mid-life transitions)
• Relational Issues (attachment, connection, communication, conflict, emotional and sexual intimacy)
• Spiritual Issues

I utilize and integrate a variety of psychotherapy and family systems models depending on the needs of the client. Information about several of those models are listed under services.