Areas of Focus
Support for those navigating trauma, relationships, and the demands of everyday life.
Couples Therapy & Relationship Challenges
Relationships can bring up our deepest longings, and our deepest wounds. Couples often come to therapy feeling stuck in painful cycles of conflict, distance, or misunderstanding, even when there’s still love and care underneath. In our work together, we slow things down to better understand what’s happening beneath the surface, improve communication, and help each partner feel more heard and connected. I integrate the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy to strengthen connection, repair patterns, and foster understanding and intimacy.
Many people also seek therapy on their own to explore relationship challenges with romantic partners, family members, or friends. You might notice repeating patterns, difficulty setting boundaries, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, or feeling unseen or misunderstood. Together, we look at how past experiences and relational dynamics continue to shape the present, while building insight and more choice in how you show up in relationships.
Relational Trauma
& Complex PTSD
When safety wasn’t consistent in relationships, the nervous system adapts—through hypervigilance, emotional numbing, people-pleasing, or intense reactions in closeness.
Therapy focuses on restoring safety, choice, and connection, within yourself and with others.​
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I use a trauma-informed, relational approach that integrates EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and parts work. EMDR helps the nervous system process painful memories so they become less overwhelming. Parts work helps us understand and gently care for the protective parts of you that learned to stay alert, numb, or in control. Together, we move at a pace that feels safe and collaborative.
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Parenthood & Life Transitions
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Parenting and major life changes can feel overwhelming at any stage. Balancing work, relationships, and your own needs while caring for children, or navigating other transitions like career changes, midlife shifts, or relationship challenges, can leave little space for yourself.
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Pregnancy, Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health
Support for anxiety, mood changes, identity shifts, and the emotional adjustment to pregnancy and early parenthood.
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Women’s Mental Health
Support for women navigating stress, burnout, and emotional overwhelm across life stages. This includes identity changes, relationship challenges, caregiving roles and midlife transitions.
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Men’s Mental Health
Support for men navigating emotional challenges, relationship stress, identity changes and fatherhood.
Managing Stress, Anxiety & Burnout
Life can feel like it’s moving too fast, and the constant pressure to perform, care for others, and keep everything together can leave you exhausted and on edge or disconnected from yourself. Stress and anxiety can show up as overwhelm, irritability, racing thoughts, or physical tension, while burnout can make even everyday tasks feel impossible.
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In therapy, we work together to identify what’s fueling your stress, understand the patterns keeping you stuck, and develop tools to manage anxiety, set boundaries, and restore balance.
