Individual Therapy

Starting therapy can feel like a lot. You might not know exactly what to say, or worry that you will say the wrong thing, or show up to the first session having already rehearsed an explanation of yourself that sounds reasonable and contained. Please, leave that version at the door.

I am a person first and a therapist second. I do not have a view from above, and I am not keeping score of what you “should” have done differently. You know your life best. What I do have is a genuine curiosity about you, not the version of you that has it together, but the one who showed up trying anyway. My hope is that over time, that gentle curiosity will become yours too. That you start to get interested in yourself rather than critical of yourself, and that the gap between those two things starts to close.

I also want you to push back on me. If something I say does not land right, or feels off, even if you cannot explain why it bothers you, say so. That moment is usually where the most important work happens. There is no wrong way to be in the room doing this work. You are not here to perform wellness. You are just here. And that is more than enough.

Sessions are 50 minutes via secure telehealth, typically weekly to start. I work from a Narrative Therapy foundation -- a postmodern, systemic approach that situates problems in context rather than inside the person. The work is collaborative. We look at the stories that have shaped how you move through the world, where those stories came from, and whether they still serve you.

When the work calls for it, I draw on Internal Family Systems -- useful for understanding the internal parts that get activated under stress -- and EMDR, which is particularly effective for processing specific traumatic memories or experiences that remain stuck despite other work. The modality follows the client, not the other way around.