Areas of Interest

Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental and physical response to stress that can become overwhelming and all consuming. Anxiety often shows up physically as rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, chest and throat tension, or challenges feeling grounded or steady in one’s body. Mentally it can show up as spiraling and worst case scenario thought patterns, intrusive worries, or dread. Chronic anxiety can lead to stress, fear, avoidance, and limit one's quality of life and enjoyment.

Codependency (Includes People Pleasing)

Codependency is very misunderstood in pop culture. Codependents are generally folks who grew up around challenging or dysfunctional relational dynamics and needed to prioritize others above themselves or walk on eggshells to avoid abuse or turbulence. This dynamic can lead to self-sacrifice, challenges around control and being controlled, people pleasing, and lack of boundaries. Codependency is common for folks who grew up around addiction or any form of abuse (especially narcissistic abuse).

Depression

Depression is a mind-body experience that can feel heavy, numbing, or like a loss of connection to oneself and the world. It may show up physically as fatigue, feelings of heaviness, changes in sleep or appetite, or a sense of slowing down and having trouble gaining momentum. Mentally and emotionally, it can bring feelings of sadness, isolation, self-criticism, hopelessness, or difficulty finding a connection to things that once felt meaningful. Over time, depression can narrow one’s life experience, making it hard to feel engaged, present, or connected to vitality.

Grief and Loss

Our experiences around loss are some of the most significant and universal yet many of us find we do not have ways to memorize, share, and honor the endings in our life. When we process endings and share experiences of grief and loss, we give voice to what once felt unspeakable. In doing this, we open up a courageous and compassionate aspect of our humanity that will help us ultimately find greater peace, deeper wisdom, and tremendous empathy.

Life Transitions

Life transitions are an inevitable part of being human—moments when something familiar ends and we’re met with what has not yet come to be. Even when change is intentional, it can stir uncertainty, loss, and longing for what once felt steady. Transitions invite us to pause, reflect, and reorient, revealing both vulnerability and resilience. When we allow ourselves to grieve what’s shifting and accept what’s emerging, these turning points can become gateways to deeper growth and self understanding.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often misunderstood, reduced to stereotypes when in reality it can be a deeply distressing and isolating experience. It involves intrusive, unwanted thoughts that trigger anxiety, followed by repetitive behaviors or mental rituals intended to create relief or a sense of control. Contrary to common stereotypes, these rituals are often subtle and may appear as “socially acceptable” behaviors such as reassurance seeking, compulsive research, or excessive checking. Many people live with OCD for years before receiving an accurate diagnosis, mistaking their symptoms for general anxiety and thus continuing to experience a high level of anxiety. With willingness to do exposure therapy—the gold-standard treatment for OCD—can help individuals accept what is out of their control, tolerate uncertainty, and find lasting relief.

Perfectionism

While striving for growth can be healthy, perfectionism can become an overwhelming experience tied to restlessness, worry, burnout, and disconnection from joy and self-worth. It’s often rooted in deeper experiences related to anxiety, codependency, OCD, or trauma. Perfectionism can show up as constant overthinking, difficulty relaxing, or feeling as though you’re always under pressure or scrutiny—keeping you caught in a cycle of self-criticism and relentless self-pressure.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a challenging condition that affects some individuals in the days leading up to their periods. It goes beyond typical PMS causing intense and sometimes immobilizing emotional symptoms like anxiety, depression, irritability, mood swings, rumination, difficulty with concentration, negative self-talk, insomnia, and, in severe cases, suicidal thoughts. These symptoms can significantly disrupt daily life, relationships, and self-esteem.  With greater awareness and the use of distress tolerance practices, PMDD can become more manageable and less overwhelming.

Trauma & Post Traumatic Stress

Trauma is anything that causes an intrusion upon our minds and bodies that physically and mentally overwhelms our nervous system and overrides our conscious ability to cope and process. Post-traumatic stress is a normal response to an intrusion upon one’s sense of peace and ability to cope. When working with trauma, I recognize the ways in which trauma impacts folks not as disorder, but as a survival response and mark of human resilience. I prioritize client safety and agency.

Treatment Modalities

While my primary orientation as a therapist is somatic, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based, my holistic practice integrates insights from the following modalities:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based approach that helps us relate differently to our thoughts and emotions rather than trying to control or avoid them. By cultivating acceptance, self-compassion, and values-guided action, ACT supports living with greater presence and purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connection between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced, reality-based perspectives. By developing practical coping skills and self-awareness, CBT supports lasting change in how we respond to stress, anxiety, and life’s challenges.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to help navigate intense emotions and relationships with greater balance. It supports developing awareness and acceptance while also building concrete tools to create meaningful change and emotional steadiness.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is a body-based technique that uses bilateral stimulation to mimic the brain's state in REM. This process encourages the brain's innate ability to heal from trauma and distress and has been proven to hold the potential to change the way in which we emotionally respond to triggering material. As a therapist, I practice EMDR through tapping and bilateral eye movement. EMDR can be useful in treating post-traumatic stress, anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, and self-limiting beliefs. As a therapist, I am EMDR trained.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold-standard treatment for OCD. It involves gradually facing feared thoughts or situations while resisting compulsions or avoidance behaviors. Through this process, the brain learns to tolerate uncertainty, reducing the intensity of intrusive fears.

Existential

Existential therapy invites exploration of life’s deeper questions—meaning, purpose, freedom, and authenticity. Instead of avoiding uncertainty, it encourages reflection on what truly matters and how to live in alignment with one’s values. I integrate existential therapy to help clients cultivate self-awareness, inner clarity, and a more intentional relationship with their lives.

Feminist

Feminist therapy takes into account dynamics of marginalization and systematic oppression. In therapy, I ask clients to consider ways in which race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, age, socioeconomic status, and ability status impact their lived experience. As a therapist, I am committed to questioning power, privilege, and positionality. I encourage clients to look at how white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and late-stage capitalism can severely challenge mental health.

Holistic

Holistic therapy honors each client's unique, complex, and multifaceted experience while also looking at the universal aspects of being human. This work combines mind-body integration and depth-oriented psychotherapy. Clients are encouraged to reflect on ways in which their presenting challenges show deep emotional, spiritual, and existential needs, longings, and desires. Clients are also encouraged to use their own inquiry to gain greater empathy and understanding of the human experience.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness-based therapy cultivates awareness of the present moment with curiosity and compassion. By learning to observe thoughts, emotions, and sensations without judgment, we create space for calm, clarity, and choice. Clients are encouraged to use mindfulness principles slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and respond to life with greater steadiness, self-compassion, and perspective.

Parts Work

Parts work is a therapeutic approach based on the idea that we all contain multiple “parts” or subpersonalities—each with its own emotions, needs, and roles developed to help us survive and adapt. Instead of trying to eliminate parts that feel painful or critical, parts work invites us to find understanding and compassion for them, helping us uncover their protective intentions and move toward greater internal harmony and self-acceptance.

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamic therapy explores ways in which past patterns can manifest in one's present behaviors, actions, and responses to emotional material. It encourages clients to develop deep personal insight and understanding of the ways in which their personality and patterns have been shaped by life experience. This type of therapy works to bring unconscious material into conscious awareness so clients can understand ways in which their behaviors are beneficial and/or self-sabotaging.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic psychotherapy integrates body-based inquiry and mindfulness into traditional talk therapy. Much of our subconscious emotional experience manifests as physical tension and holding patterns. “Feelings” are literally physical manifestations of the brain and nervous system’s response to emotional stimuli. Through developing a cognitive understanding of the mind-body connection, we find manageable ways to face challenges and cultivate deeper compassion for ourselves and others.